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• We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

  Marco Rubio

  America, Focus, Forget

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• Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ideas, Theory

  "Saltz: MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction Is Illuminating—Although It Shines That Light Mighty Selectively". www.vulture.com. January 6, 2013.

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• The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

  Jose Saramago

  Years, Civilization, September 11

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• A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Girl, Cutting, Opportunity

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• Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, Decision, Boss

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• I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

  Howard Schultz

  People, Engagement, Action

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• Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

  Howard Schultz

  Engagement, Starbucks, Music Industry

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• Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

  Klaus Schulze

  Sampling, Way, Composing

  Perfect Sound Forever Interview, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

  Jeff Shaara

  Gettysburg, Monument, Ifs

  "Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.

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• I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.

  Sarah Shahi

  Sexy, Smart, Definitions

  "Up Close with Sarah Shahi". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Book, Writing, People

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• My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Airplane, Grandmother, Impact

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• Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?

  Willow Shields

  True Friend, Years, Long

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

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• The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

  Peter Singer

  World, Internet, Steam Engines

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom". www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

  Mike Singletary

  Song, Always Trying, Saws

  "San Francisco coach Mike Singletary gets serious after the pants saga" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Block, Cowboy

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• What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Thinking, Sept 11, Given

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• In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Live Life, Nurse

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• I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

  Robert Smith

  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

  "The talking Cure". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2004.

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• English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

  Zadie Smith

  Growing Up, Fiction, Trajectory

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• Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

  Layne Staley

  Drug, Woods, Week

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• I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Want, Buying

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• I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Kids, Insecure, Gone

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• The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Special, Important, Velcro

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• When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Insecure, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Brian D. Johnson, www.macleans.ca. March 6, 2012.

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