Quotes About Change

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

I'll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.

I arrived at New York, and I went from being Andy Rannells from Nebraska to being Andrew Rannells in New York who was gay. And those were just the facts.

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Innovation is a necessity.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

The world is becoming more global. More than ever, people are proactively deciding where to live, where to study, where to work. Sometimes it's out of necessity, sometimes it's out of choice.