If one tries to think about history, it seems to me – it’s like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you’ve moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.
I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.
My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.
You know that genie where you get three wishes? One that has never changed for me is I would like to sing, and move an audience through song.
9/11 was basically caused by box cutters, and that changed the world.
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
We had some problems – my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read – they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60’s to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I’m happy to eat and breathe normally. I’m happy to have my life back.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures… as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors – we used to call them mercenaries – to do the country’s fighting.
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
Bullying has changed a lot through the years.
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
I believe in teaching as a real job. I don’t think it’s a substitute for anything else. It’s been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn’t changed that.
We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.
I asked myself, ‘What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what’s right?’ I just made a decision. I said, ‘It’s time to grow up. It’s time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.’ I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.
The business has changed greatly since my day.
The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people’s lives.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.
So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off – we’ve done enough consolidation; we’ve got enough critical mass.
I’m the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.
Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I’m telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.
Everything has changed in recent decades – the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It’s about time our laws caught up. We watch ‘Modern Family’ on television, but we’re still living by ‘Leave It To Beaver’ rules.
The intolerance of people against other people is growing and growing. And the thing is, this is not anything that’s changed. This has been going on for years.
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
David Bowie is my biggest inspiration. Pretty much the only thing that stayed the same with Bowie was his eyes. Everything else constantly changed, from his sexuality to his songs.
Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.
My journey has been good, and by God’s grace, I have not changed.
What has changed is that nothing has changed… that’s what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can’t give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it’s still not something I am used to.
We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life.
It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same.
While that wasn’t first and foremost in my mind, you can’t get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we’ve come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
You’re talking to somebody who two years ago couldn’t figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they’re getting out without the Internet.
Basically that was the moment when I thought I’d like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.
I haven’t made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.
My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.
Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!
I don’t think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
My life since the Miss Universe win has changed completely, in fact I do not think my life will ever be the same again.
Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That’s when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.
Something that’s interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven’t changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
