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Climate change is crap.

– Tony Abbott

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, ‘I’ll go out there and have fun,’ but it’s very nerve-wracking for me. I don’t think that will ever change.

– Tessanne Chin

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

– William Glasser

A word is an arbitrary label – that’s the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don’t snicker: Would you ever say, ‘Nothing has gone wrong yet’ without looking for wood to knock?

– Steven Pinker

Change is not threatening.

– Steve Wynn

I’m not defined by baseball. I’d love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn’t, my life won’t change. I’ll still be coaching my boy’s games.

– Tom Glavine

When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I’ve met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

– Wayne Coyne

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

– Steven Pinker

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can’t bear to change even the stupid parts.

– Timothy Noah

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing – these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

– Stacy London

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.

– Wayne Swan

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country’s never been the same since.

– W. Averell Harriman

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it’s easy.

– Ursula Burns

If you’re a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments – not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

– T. J. Miller

My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he’s Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don’t think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.

– Said Sayrafiezadeh

I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society – and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer’s life changed mine.

– Zachary Quinto

I think the main thing for young women is to have confidence and not be afraid to challenge continuing inequalities, because that’s the only way you’ll get change.

– Sarah Gavron

I grew up accepting that my nationality was not depicted on TV or film. To be honest, it was something I didn’t acknowledge as a kid. But once I realized my love for acting and the possibility of pursuing a career in it, I quickly noticed the absence of Asians in general and thought, ‘Well, I’m gonna try to change that.’

– Vincent Rodriguez III

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

– Sophie Marceau

Why shouldn’t a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

– will.i.am

Bringing out service staff on to the dining floor does change the atmosphere.

– Steve Easterbrook

The fundamentals are the U.S. is going to end up being a net exporter of natural gas. That’s going to be wonderful to help our balance of payments, reduce our dependence on a lot of countries that aren’t so crazy about us, and change many, many parts of what goes on here.

– Wilbur Ross

I really love the EMS Vocoder 2000, which is a pretty nice little box. You put one thing in one end and another in the other end, and you’re able to change vocals by the sound and do a lot – it’s just got a great sound. But the thing is, it’s a bit clunky, so it’s kind of hard to use it.

– Tim Gane

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

– Ta-Nehisi Coates

If we lived in a world where we had the rule of a judge, rather than the rule of law, you would have seen an absolute sea change, an avulsive change in the law as it was interpreted, applied and rendered by our court.

– Sri Srinivasan

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People’s attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

– Tommy Chong

The amount of resources we put in are disparate. We put billions of dollars into fuel-efficient technologies. How much are we putting into energy behavior change in a credible, systematic, testing way?

– Sendhil Mullainathan

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men’s formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

– Steven Cojocaru

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I’m forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

– Trish Stratus

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

– Wilhelm Ostwald

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