Quotes About Change

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.

It's weird that I'm putting my old green and gold jersey, and I'm moving on to the cardinal and white. I'm a Stanford Cardinal.

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

As a young Maori actor, I don't want to be seen as a child star; I want to be seen as a serious actor and an actor who can change the world.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job.

The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.

There were definitely a few ways I could have gone after 'Totally Biased' ended. One of those was getting a job at Starbucks.

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

It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.

Things change. You walk on the street and get a Starbucks, and things have changed by the time you come back to the office.

I don't think about stardom anymore. I'm way past that phase.

It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.

I got stardom too easily. I didn't appreciate the breaks. But that's all behind me now.

I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.