Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.
Building on our strong track record of supporting developing countries, including in areas like climate justice, human rights, gender and education, Ireland recognises that vulnerable communities need very considerable assistance in adapting to climate change.
When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.
Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.
I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.
We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
Change does happen, you know?
I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.
A new setting is amazing cause it's new for the team, and it's new for our characters. It's a breakaway from the normal deal. You get so tired, locked into a show for so many years. You get used to doing the same thing. A little shake-up and change is good.
There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.
Bill Clinton's incredibly bold idea was to change the grant to a transaction: we'll give you something, but we demand something back; the way he would phrase it is, 'We'll give you opportunity, but you have to take responsibility.'
I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.
From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
When I'm very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.
I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.
The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
You cannot choose beforehand what you want to use for a suit. You may want to change your mind a dozen times before you are through.
