Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed or black people have been portrayed in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

When you're a catalyst for change you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

In one century we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

The question I've come to think is not what inspires one to change but what inspires one to remain changed.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable and it also seems impossible to change anything.

When it comes to meat change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Polite and velvety leaders who take care to avoid bruising others are generally not as effective at forcing change.

Maybe one day the world will change that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals but the question doesn't matter right now.

When you go off in the world and make your life and you come back to your home town and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles doing the same things that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Men are but children of a larger growth Our appetites as apt to change as theirs And full as craving too and full as vain.

Even God cannot change the past.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

I shoot a little bit maybe two rolls medium format which is 20 pictures and if it's not working I change the position.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

A zebra does not change its spots.