I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world. – Bernardo Bertolucci
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. – Bill Gates
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over – but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they’re going to do next. – Conor Oberst
My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I’m looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter. – Blake Lively
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. – Bruce Lipton
So many times I’ve heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won’t really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It’s a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter. – Alice Dreger
The church wasn’t an organization in the first century. They weren’t writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership. – Andy Stanley
One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It’s one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don’t change from role to role. I don’t want it that way. – Billy Crudup
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. – Clint Eastwood
Wonderful things happen when you turn 50: you change perspective. You ask, ‘Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What have I not done that I want to do?’ – Andie MacDowell
I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change. – Annie Lennox
I wanna change the game in way where I’m not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I’ve been given. – Anthony Hamilton
It’s not nice to say it – I know female musicians, but not so many rappers. I can’t think of one I idolize, which is sad, but I’m hoping that will change. – Awkwafina
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and ’60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware. – Bob Newhart
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. – Blaise Pascal
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. – Charles R. Swindoll
I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live. – Bindi Irwin
We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it’s because life is so short, and there’s so much that can change. – Ben Carson
I think anybody who’s had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there’s no incentive to change. – Blake Farenthold
I played very well in AC Milan, but I had two years of injury problems. I needed to change team and the city for my mentality. – Alexandre Pato
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door. – Abel Ferrara
The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time. – Anatoly Karpov
The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it’s also an issue of economics because it’s holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change. – Ann Cotton
Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time. – Alex Campbell
There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you’re a denier of that fact, then you’re not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal. – Brad Carson
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what’s going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism. – A. S. Byatt