Quotes About Change

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.

I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

I don't look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I - personally, I'm not interested in my own past. I'm only interested in today - perhaps tomorrow.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

There were a lot of people in Manchester that I was connected to, so it is a bit different coming to London and not knowing as many people.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.

Democracy is not perfect.

As a society, we're not perfect by any means.

The Affordable Care Act is not perfect, and I would vote to build on its success while fixing what doesn't work.

The A.C.A. is not perfect, but it has helped us move forward.

You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but actual celebrities.

You want your kids to grow up in a world that's better than the one you grew up in. I'm not talking about my own family's wealth. I'm talking about the actual world and all the issues that we have.

I like to keep in touch with my exes and I've been fortunate enough to end on a good note with them. It's always been important to me because it's crazy how you can love someone so much one second and hate them the next. I just find it really bizarre!

I think it's important to note that, you know, we live in a time where everything's changed. The idea of blended families is now not foreign to anybody, it's actually quite commonplace.

I was a drum 'n' bass DJ at first but not any one of note.

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.

It is disappointing to note that you no longer find enough of melodious music in Malayalam films.

When I first went to LA. Honestly, it was different for me. The whole thing, the student-athlete part, you know, where the student came before the athlete. That was totally new to me. I had down online school since fifth grade so I never really had sat in a classroom and taken a note.

It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school.

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.