Quotes About Transformation

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

I want to rebuild America.

If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

America's seen me go from Olympic glory to 'Biggest Loser'. I want to go back to Olympic glory again. It's kind of the American way, rebuilding yourself and remodeling yourself and making yourself more of who you are.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

I recall very early Mel Gibson films where he's kind of cheeky. I wanted to embody those qualities, definitely.

Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel.

When you receive love, you become more beautiful because of the confidence it gives you.

Without the care I received at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, I wouldn't look the way I do now; my back would be hunched over.

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the American musical does so thrillingly is bastardize these forms into something that is exhilarating and compelling and deeply moving.

I think I was pretty reckless and definitely a bit out of control. Now, I'm more focused.

I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

I turned the Gloucester Christmas lights on and our local Newent lights on, so everyone recognises me now. It is a completely different life for me.

No one used to recognise me at all but now it's different. So many more people come up to me, all on the back of playing for England.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It has to be a character. I want to do strong roles.

My younger self wouldn't recognise me at all. She would think I was quite serious, organised and practical, but I've had to be to run the foundation.

It's one thing to be bitter about something, but it's another thing to recognise the growth and the change that you made.

With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt.

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.