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Quotes About Change

I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.
~ Helen Mirren
My main aim is to change our perception of how we look at vegetables because I think vegetables have always been put on the side - it's always been your steamed broccoli or boiled broccoli with your meat.
~ Ella Woodward
Kogi changed what a generation eats, introducing people to fermentation and different vegetables and flavors.
~ Roy Choi
Pre 'Scam' era, I could go out with my daughter in the evening and just go out for a walk, or do things like buying vegetables or other things for the home. But now, in the post 'Scam' era, if I have to do something like that, I have to think about it many times now.
~ Pratik Gandhi
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
~ Rita Rudner
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
~ Paul McCartney
I just came home and said, 'I'm a vegetarian.' My parents were very kind about it. And then, I became a vegan a year or two after that. Animal cruelty really got to me.
~ Emily Deschanel
I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
~ Daphne Oz
I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
~ Padma Lakshmi
My husband is a vegetarian. So it has really pushed me as a chef. Just thinking about the food that I really relied on as my hunny-hunting foods, that looks different with a vegetarian.
~ Damaris Phillips
I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.
~ Dean Ornish
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
~ Steve Albini
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.
~ Bernhard Goetz
India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
~ Bernhard Goetz
I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!
~ Kim Barnouin
I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
~ Laura Esquivel
My mother raised me as a vegetarian, but when I turned 18, I decided to expand my palate.
~ Hannah Bronfman
When I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I've been a pure vegetarian; I don't even take egg.
~ K. J. Yesudas
I became a vegetarian when I was 5.
~ Hilaria Baldwin
Believe me, I became a vegetarian from being a teenager in the meatpacking district.
~ Bebe Buell
Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.
~ Theo Jansen
I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
~ Patch Adams
Hip-hop is a vehicle.
~ Talib Kweli