The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it… It’s a great outlet. I’m not really sure who I am – it seems I change every day. – Leonardo DiCaprio
If it’s one thing we do really well as a company, it’s that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us. – Kevin Systrom
Tragedy brings change, and that’s what I’m interested in most – how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change. – Maya Angelou
Andy Clark refers to humans as ‘natural-born cyborgs.’ What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it. – Karl Schroeder
I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem. – Ma Jun
I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star. – Lady Gaga
You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud. – John Key
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I’m basically the same person I was when I won ‘Idol,’ or when I was 10. – Kelly Clarkson
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the ’80s and ’90s can never change, is absurd. – Jeff Fortenberry
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. – Lawrence Lessig
Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change. – Keith Ellison
I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba’s freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba. – Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai
Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace. – Jean Nidetch
Going into the second arc, I’m making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I’m trying to make ‘Pretty Deadly’ more accessible by being more clear in the writing. – Kelly Sue DeConnick
But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing. – John Perkins
I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are. – Michelle Obama
My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me. – Julian Assange
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. – John Boyd Orr
Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don’t move. – Marc Jacobs
Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families. – Jill Bennett
I’m not super nostalgic for friendships I’ve lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that’s okay. – Katie Aselton
There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world. – Johann Lamont
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible. – Lech Walesa