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• I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

  Renee Fleming

  Accomplishment, Havens, Knows

  "Diva in Demand: Soprano Renee Fleming". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. October 12, 1999.

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• The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Inspire

  "Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

  Jane Fonda

  Spring, Technology, Thinking

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• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Vanity, Acknowledge

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

  James Franco

  Editing, Actors, Filmmaking

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• We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

  Hayden Fry

  Looks, Fields, Winner

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• Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Cities, Fey, Generations

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• I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

  William Gibson

  Book, Thinking, Opening

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• Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

  Seth Godin

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• A lot of times, I think that what I do for a living has no integrity. 'Once Upon A Time' has changed that to a certain extent because the reaction we get from children out in the world is so fulfilling, I cannot even articulate it. There's nothing like being greeted as Snow White by a hyperventilating child versus Ginnifer Goodwin.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Children, Integrity, Thinking

  "What Made Ginnifer Goodwin 'Freak The Fudge Out?'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.

  Al Gore

  Light, Pumps, Heat

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Faces, Comedy, Used

  Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.

  Ellie Goulding

  Cutting, Black And White, Hair

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

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• I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

  Matt Groening

  Mother, Father, Character

  "Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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• All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

  Sammy Hagar

  Way, Different, Would Be

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• My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, America, Community

  Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense, February, 2013.

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• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  Larry Hagman

  Country, Religious, Thinking

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• Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Wife, Soldier, Perception

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.38, Penguin

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• I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

  Kirk Hammett

  Thinking, People, Band

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• I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Years, Differences, Decision

  "Herbie Hancock's Jazz-Pop 'Possibilities'". 'News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. September 2, 2005.

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• Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Spring, Pride, Israel

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• I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Guy, Stuff

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

  Robert Harris

  Thinking, Issues, Years

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• By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

  Levon Helm

  Band, Thrill, Lasts

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• I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Soul, Body

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