I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.
I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.
France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.
Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.
In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.
If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.
We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
