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We have to fight climate change like we actually want to win.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown's father felt that way.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.

When we, as a nation, put our minds to something, when we truly choose to care about something, change always happens.

Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in some circumstances. But there is nothing in either their history or their physical attributes that suggests solar and wind in particular could or should be the centerpiece of efforts to deal with climate change.

I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

You could look at something a hundred times from space, but the next time you come around the world, suddenly it's very different and gorgeous-looking, just because of the change of weather or the angle of the sun.

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted, it is beyond human control. All 'we' can do is create an interior space against the storm, an enclave of self-protection, though the winds of change till penetrate keyholes and 'unsealed apertures.'

We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.

My job is to create a business model that's built on a platform that has the ability to change quickly.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.

Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.

If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right?

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She was a trailblazer who never backed down from a challenge and whose work in Hawaii and Congress brought positive change to the lives of women, children, and minorities in Hawaii and across the country.