Quotes About Change

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

If you've followed us from when we started playing live in October 2010, you will notice that there has been numerous changes over the years.

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

Over last 30 odd years, Kashmir has seen many highs and lows when looked at from the perspective of the security scenario, infiltrations and militancy on the ground.

It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when 'CSI' ended.

I didn't really do any acting until I was about 28. I just did odd jobs.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.

I apologize to those of you I offended for coming out against the Ex-Im Bank. I'm not changing my mind on it, but I just wanted to let you know I apologize for that.

When I was younger, I was thinking of ways I could get respect so people wouldn't bother me. I was down for whatever. I ended up going to juvenile hall, facing a good amount of time for a first-time offense.

You never really get to the point in any offense - even when I was in New England for six years - where things don't change.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

There is no way I can go back and uncreate 8chan. If I could, I would, but there is no way to do that. So the main way I have dealt with the guilt is to go on the offensive.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.