The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Nothing recedes like progress.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Nothing endures but change.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.