Quotes About Progress

'I Remember' was produced before the vocal. It's just another body of work in the long list of bodies of work.

I need to be more aggressive, more vocal, be a better defender. I've worked on all those tirelessly.

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

In the past, if you were too vocal, it was considered a negative. Now it's encouraged.

Like my writing, my voice has been something I've worked at. I knew I had a good voice but it was a matter of time before it was what I've got now. I've had to build my vocal muscles up until they were like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I've certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to.

When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

'Vogue' is a fashion magazine, and a fashion magazine is about change.

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

I've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obama. Those were benchmarks for the magazine, and certainly covers that I've been very, very proud of.

Learning how to be editor-in-chief of 'Vogue' wasn't something that happened overnight.

The evolution at 'Teen Vogue' is not a result of dinosaurs in a board room coming up with a strategy to reach the kids.

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

I believe the people of Compton are ready for change. They've spoken. Their voice has clearly been heard that they don't want to go backward. They want to go forward.

We talk nonstop about what needs to be changed, and everyone has excuses for why the changes can't happen. I believe we must change our educational system first to get the changes moving forward. I'm happy to be a voice and get in front of an audience who can help by making education a priority.

I know I have a voice, and I want to use that voice as much as I can to bring things forward.

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.