Quotes About Change

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.

In my last years, I was conscious how I used to play the game when I first broke through. It was absolute chalk and cheese. I probably finished at the right time. There won't be many players like me in the future.

So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.

You have a chance to show your true colors through adverse times. You can make a conscious decision to change things.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 30 that I wanted to do something different with my life. I felt a little bit lost and didn't trust people, so I decided to move to America.

There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

To be anti-racist you have to be actively a part of dismantling the systems that surround you and the systems that you benefit from.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

I don't know about changing my mind regarding The One-Man Band. I've always personally found him incredibly entertaining, which is one of the reasons why, in the past, I surrounded myself with guys like him. I think he's a complete buffoon, don't get me wrong, but personally, I find him very funny.