Trying To Change Quotes - Page 5

• Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "‘Hunger Games’ Star Josh Hutcherson Talks Gay Attraction, Says He Doesn’t Rule It Out", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself.

  Martin Parr

  Eye, People, Trying

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• Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight into death, but now, as she lay against the pillar, she saw it differently. She thought she'd been surviving. She thought that she'd been fighting for herself. But all she'd done was create more killing, and in the end it had all led to this moment, where they bargained with a demon ... not for their lives, but for their souls

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Stupid, Fighting, Doctors

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• I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Drug, Trying

  "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.

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• I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

  Drew Carey

  People, Laughing, Trying

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• I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain Unix-compatible software system with BYTE editors". Interview with David Betz and Jon Edwards, www.gnu.org. July 1986.

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• I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Trying, Next Steps

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Trying, Quality

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• A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.

  Keith Miller

  Christian, Selfish, Mean

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• As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Ideas, People

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarib, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.

  Michaela DePrince

  People, Dancer, Black

  "Teen dancer Michaela DePrince", www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.

  Nick Damici

  Mind, Trying, Politician

  Source: dailydead.com

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• Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much thought goes into creating a role, so I'm always interested to find out what was the thought process of the writer and how best can I convey it rather than trying to change it to suit myself.

  Naomie Harris

  Mom, Real, Reading

  "Naomie Harris Talks SKYFALL, Her Favorite Bond and Bond Girl, the Moneypenny Rumors and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

  Adam Shankman

  People, Trying, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Two, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control.

  Dan Ariely

  Drinking, Smoking, Trying

  Source: time.com

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• Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Political, Important

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.

  Gangaji

  Heart, Fighting, Survival

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• I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to change the world, although that's so crazy. That's just delusional. But I recognize that it's crazy. It will be a little dinky change.

  Carolyn See

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

  Joseph Heller

  Nurse, Trying, Wonderful

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, "Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested."

  Jon Gordon

  Men, Car, Trying

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• I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to look at it properly. Rather than open their mind to the possibility of seeing something, they just resist. A lot of people think contemporary art makes them feel stupid. Because they are stupid. They're right. If you have contempt about contemporary art, you are stupid. You can be the most uneducated person in the world and completely appreciate contemporary art, because you see the rebellion. You see that it's trying to change things.

  John Waters

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "Who gave John Waters the keys to the museum?". Interview with Colin Covert, www.startribune.com. June 5, 2011.

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• It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

  Ron Paul

  Winning, Trying, Courses

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• I'm always trying to change things - change my character, change my look, change my hair, change my facial hair, change my costumes, or implement different jackets or catchphrases. I try to keep myself fresh.

  Chris Jericho

  Character, Hair, Always Trying

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

  Upton Sinclair

  America, Years, Trying

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