Quotes About Change

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

When I found out that I had a baby on the way it changed my mind and my whole way of thinking. I knew I needed to change and be a better person for my daughter.

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

I think I was probably, at one point, a very needy friend, and as you grow up and you have your own life and get married or not and have kids or not, and life goes, and it grows, and you grow with it, and - I think I'm a better friend now.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I think it's interesting to know that being a geek isn't the negative thing that it used to be.

When I first came into the side as captain, I was accused of being quite conservative, quite negative, and just doing what Andrew Strauss did.

Of course, I know everything that happens in Russia. But even at the most dangerous moment or the most negative moment now, it's still 10 times better than what it was in the communist state.

I don't do anything out of negativity anymore.

In reality, I was drowning in negativity. I was stuck playing a part, too afraid to change, too afraid of losing my readers if I suddenly stopped being so mean.

Women are underrepresented and neglected in all aspects of the entertainment industry, so naturally, those of us who want to make a change use any opportunity to shine a light on someone when we can.

Labour can no longer impose a future on the country, instead it must negotiate one.

I think that social migration to another economic class requires a kind of negotiating with yourself. And also, there's so much ambivalence in your heart about who you are and who you're really not.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make you feel as if you have a place in the world.