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• I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Want, Can't Change

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• We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Thinking, Elements

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

  Kathy Acker

  People, Want, Middle

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Study, Human Nature

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

  Ba Jin

  Facts, Kill Me, Can't Change

  "Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

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• You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

  Paulo Coelho

  Wind, Destination, Sail

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• Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

  Warren Buffett

  Love You, People, Interesting

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• You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• We can't change the world until we change ourselves.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Hip Hop, World, Life Happiness

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• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  Candice S. Miller

  Results, Can't Change, Ifs

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• IMDb is kind of weird, because people can put things on there, but then I can't change it.

  Missy Peregrym

  People, Kind, Can't Change

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• Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can't change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.

  Lynn Johnston

  Photography, People, Want

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• You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

  Craig Groeschel

  Weakness, Needs, Overwhelmed

  Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.141, Harper Collins

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• Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

  Sam Walton

  Exercise, Psychology, Way

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• I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

  J. F. Powers

  Change, Wine, Men

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• We all have regrets, Urian. Nothing that lives is immune from that nasty emotion. (Acheron) So what? You want me to go kiss and make up? (Urian) Hardly. But I want you to set aside your own hurt and anger to see clearly for a minute. This isn’t about you and your father anymore than it’s about me and Nick hating each other over something we can’t change. This is about saving the lives of a million innocent people. People like Phoebe who don’t deserve to be hunted and killed. If I can stand at the side of my enemies for the greater good, so can you. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Regret, Father

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• I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.

  Maya Tiwari

  Variation, Stones, Way

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

  Paul Mooney

  Past, Reality, Deals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Cities, Years

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it.

  Richard Bandler

  People, Void, Can't Change

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• It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Reality, Thinking

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Two, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

  Herb Kelleher

  Attitude, Dna, People

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• You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Negativity, Feelings, Negative

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

  Grace Hopper

  Running, Moving, People

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