Quotes About Change

Netflix was my sixth start-up, and that point I decided I didn't have it in me to start another company. At least that's what I thought at the time.

If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.

There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

We still have a long way to go in such a misogynistic industry. But the discussions that we are having on social media and in politics, about the equal representation of women, which wasn't happening when I started out, is definitely changing things.

Before I was in Girls Aloud, I wanted to be a nanny. But then Girls Aloud started and that ruined that dream!

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

The WNBA changed everything. It started in 1997, and I graduated from high school in 1998.

I never really liked kids before, and kind of hated them. I just didn't like them. I don't know why. All that has changed ever since my daughter was born, and I have started loving kids now.

When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop.

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

The thought about changing my genre of music does cross my mind, but then I remember why I started making music in the first place or why people started liking my kind of music.

I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.

Guys get... benched, replaced. They get injured; another guy comes in and becomes the starter. That happens all the time.

The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my 'starter husbands!'

From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.

I'm on a mission partly to make a difference in the world for the better, starting with the kids. They are the future.