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And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. -- Lady Gaga
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. -- Ice Cube
Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important. -- Tina Weymouth
Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it. -- Lady Gaga
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. -- Tina Fey
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down. -- Pema Chodron
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds. -- Horton Foote
When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others -- Jane Nelsen
I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change. -- Rhonda Byrne
We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom. -- Deepak Chopra
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful. -- Lenny Kravitz
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds. -- Libba Bray
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage. -- Jared Leto
The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership. -- John C. Maxwell
I'm trying to change the world. -- Kid Cudi
We're not trying to change the world; just music. -- Jonathan Davis
In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world. -- Robert Wilson
Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. -- David Whyte
I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything. -- Drew Carey
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. -- Rick James
I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change. -- Chris Messina
Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase. -- Guy Finley
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once. -- Ian K. Smith
Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible. -- Haruki Murakami
The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer. -- Fred Alan Wolf
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..! -- Oprah Winfrey
I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live. -- Bettie Page
People love seeing people trying to change stuff. -- Adam Shankman
Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs -- Martha Beck
By no means am I trying to change the modeling industry. -- Tyra Banks
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him. -- Joseph Heller
I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough! -- Michael Bloomberg
Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is. -- Tina Brown
I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me. -- Ammon Hennacy
the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots. -- Italo Calvino
I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money -- Mike Tyson
Everyone cannot like you. Don't waste your time trying to change those who do not. Just be you. -- Stella Oladiran
I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see. -- Nick Damici
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It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history. -- Ron Paul
Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship. -- Grover Norquist
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation. -- Haile Gebrselassie
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. -- Laozi
Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within. -- William J. H. Boetcker
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws. -- Gail Collins
I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can. -- George Strait
I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina, -- Michaela DePrince
I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me. -- El-P
People are like, "Oh, I want to make your eyes almond." I don't have almond eyes! Why are you trying to change my eye shape? -- Miley Cyrus
You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it. -- Tom Robbins
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change my pallet to like healthy food. -- Ruby Gettinger
Acting is one thing, but actually trying to change the world and the way people think to make people's lives better? That's the stuff I'm most proud of. -- Josh Hutcherson
When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie. -- Sam de Jong
The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring. -- Emily Haines
Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences. -- Christopher Lee
I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand. -- Bruce Feiler
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists. -- Guy Kawasaki
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change. -- Lawrence Eagleburger
Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us? -- Cecil Castellucci
If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can. -- George Strait
They changed the press conference, they are trying to change the time of the weigh-in. They are trying to mess with me, but what they don't realize is that they are only fueling me to bring more hurt. -- David Haye
CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like. -- Adora Svitak
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people. -- Bob Geldof
During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older. -- Chris Ware
During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older. -- Chris Ware
A lot of the offers I get are for these innocent 16-year-olds, and I turn down a lot of stuff because it's the same-old same-old. The whole point of wanting to act is trying to change it up, and I want to experience everything. -- Jillian Murray
I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly. -- Rachel Maddow
Perhaps they suspected that I thought less of them because I knew it. (I'm too aware of human frailty to have let that happen. If anything, I thought more of them for wanting to face up to what they had done and for trying to change.) -- Harold S. Kushner
My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete. -- T-Pain
I get 100 e-mails a day from Americans who say, 'What you're doing is cool - can we work for you?' From Germans, I also get 100 e-mails a day, saying, 'You fat pig!' or 'You're a liar and a criminal!' I'm trying to change this. -- Kim Dotcom
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
I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent. -- Harold Simmons
On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play. -- Jessica Biel
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. -- Kevin Kelly
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. -- Woodrow Wilson
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. -- B. F. Skinner
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin
I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team. -- Isaiah Thomas
If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing. -- Wavy Gravy
I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children. -- Victoria Osteen
I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper. -- Jonathan Shapiro
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change. -- Gianni Versace
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. -- Peter Drucker
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes. -- Paula Danziger
I'm trying not to change. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Be the change you're trying to create -- Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change you are trying to create. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress. -- R. A. Salvatore
Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life. -- Hayley Williams
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I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all. -- David Lee Roth
Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working. -- Shakti Gawain
Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat! -- Clare B. Dunkle
God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us. -- David Wilkerson
Sometimes when I read Scripture, I'm trying to learn something or teach something or change something in my life. -- Jennifer Rothschild
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else. -- Carl Sagan
I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book. -- George W. Bush
I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change. -- Susan Boyle
We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change. -- Gayle King
I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality. -- Lauren DeStefano
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things. -- S. Robson Walton
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change. -- Chris Hughes
Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue. -- Stefan Molyneux
Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue. -- Stefan Molyneux
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?" -- Warren G. Bennis
At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change. -- Neil Marshall
Every morning trying to wake you up gives me the best view explaining me, why I wouldn't change anything from you -- BILL KOSTARAS
We need to make a change while there's still time, it is hard, and at times I struggle trying to reveal mine. -- Hopsin
Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us. -- Nicky Gumbel
I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward. -- Margaret D. Klein
We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ -- Dan Schilling
In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently. -- Nicholson Baker

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