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Related He's just so easy about it all. He was getting disillusioned about the film world. He didn't know ho... ANNALISA HODGKINS People said that he just changed. ANTHONY WHITE I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER Since 9/11, the battlefield has changed. CAPT. CAPRICE BRUNELLE It was phenomenal partnership with the naval base, but as the world changed after 9-11 so too did ou... DAVID PICKLER If you had told me when he made the switch that he would be on the Olympic team, I would have said h... PAUL HEDRICK As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world.... GREG LAKE I pray every day so that John Paul II is made saint. He is a man that changed Poland, changed me, ch... KATARZYNA MALEC But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I ... BARRY MCGUIRE I'm not sure why he changed his mind. He never really said. He just said he wanted to be a Marine. H... BARBARA ANDERSON We need to honor a man who has changed the world as we know it. There are still obstacles, but he la... DENNIS MITCHELL But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening... BARRY MCGUIRE I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But yo... SARAH REES BRENNAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.' YUSUF HAMIED Michael has told us the same thing he has told the media. He has indicated he wants to confer with h... JOSH KRULEWITZ Mike said he was already thinking of going on active duty, but after 9/11, he felt that he had to do... JUDY TAYLOR After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and... HARI KONDABOLU Dishonesty is Trump's hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against going i... MITT ROMNEY I just wanted to know what he said. When I came into the dugout they told me he wasn't trying to do ... ALBERT PUJOLS Just the other day he told me Dougie Walters had phoned. I thought, 'that's good' and he said, 'yeah... DENNIS LILLEE I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect... LIBBA BRAY People should be changed by world wars," I said, "else what are world wars for? KURT VONNEGUT JR. But (when) Saddam changed his mind and said he couldn't be held responsible for security, the pope c... DHIA MHESEN Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie... DEYTH BANGER The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the... ROBERT FOSTER BENNETT I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11, and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a m... AISHA HINDS Caleb jerked me into the room and quickly shut the door as he flipped on the lights. “Well, that w... SHELLY CRANE He said he didn't feel like he was helping the team and he didn't want to play anymore. I told him I... BOB KNIGHT I asked, and the [official] told me it wasn't anything [Perry] said. He said he just didn't like the... DAVID PYPER I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little. JACKIE JACKSON September 11 changed the equation in our public policy. It forever changed our world, and the presid... SCOTT MCCLELLAN When Milan spoke with me and told me about this guy, I never asked for any assurances. The chairman ... HARRY REDKNAPP And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up aga... BIBLE Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powe... NEIL GAIMAN When he came to the Lakers, Bob McAdoo told me how much the game meant, how it changed everything, h... PAT RILEY He told me he was stiff, he said go to Jamal (Crawford). I've said the same thing for four days now. LARRY BROWN I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed. BEVERLY CLEARY The situation has changed. We just want the government to take a decision in national interest. PRAKASH KARAT I was so worried when he told me he enlisted. It was after 9/11. He really enjoyed it. He really too... ZYVONNE ADAMS In the days after 9/11, we heard innumerable reprises of the lazy leftist trope 'poverty breeds terr... MARK STEYN But something happened when I got out into the world, something that changed me. It was the reconnec... JELLIS VAES We want another chance at them. When coach saw the draw, the first thing he said was that it would b... DAN SKILLMAN I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN He has just changed my outlook and my attitude on life. He changed me as a person. I have grown up s... LAMAR BUTLER I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?'... JOSEPH TOWLE After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to r... AARON TVEIT I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... NEIL GAIMAN In talking to Coach [Darrell] Wyatt, he has guys coming in who run 4.6, but he said he doesn't take ... BRANDON CALEB I got nervous when I didn't know where we were. I was so scared that he was going to kill me. He sai... GLORIA LOPEZ I spoke to him (Tuesday) night and he said he'd like to play me in HORSE. I told him I'm probably to... BOB LLOYD Mr. Albert? Mr. Albert?” Harley said. “Just Albert’s fine,” Albert said tersely. �... MICHAEL GRANT I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a mo... AISHA HINDS Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially pro... RICHARD JUST When art has changed, it's because the world was changing. CORITA KENT He said at the time that the book scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. It changed him. GERALD CLARKE When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/1... JEFF LEMIRE [K. Jack Riley, a homeland security expert at Rand Corp., said hardened cockpit doors, air marshals ... JACK RILEY He hasn't changed his commitment to the fundamentals of the game. He hasn't changed his commitment t... ANDY VAN SLYKE I think he made the right decision. The situation has changed. He knows this himself. We have to tak... GILLES DUCEPPE I just spoke with a police director and he said that officers had to beat the people back. ISIDRO RAMOS I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life... PENN JILLETTE The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe whe... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL After 9-11, the President said he wanted civilians to be the eyes and ears of law enforcement. .. We... PETER LANTERI Much has changed in the world and much has changed in technology. But some things do not change. Tod... DELORES ETTER One cardinal told me while he was listening to the votes being counted, he said three rosaries. And ... WILLIAM KEELER When I took my oath last year, Adviser Peng was also a witness, and his remarks last year were prett... FRANK HSIEH Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it di... MIRA NAIR When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.” �... NEAL SHUSTERMAN Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever ... DANIEL KEYES He pointed at me and said, 'that one won't stand up.' The two policemen came near me and only one sp... ROSA PARKS [Paula Abdul and Michael Bolton go way back. Back to when she was 7 - he used to baby-sit her.] I ha... PAULA ABDUL I was shaking in my boots. I told him, 'Michael. I'm 71 years old. I've had this house for 39 years.... CAROL REBELLO I was shaking in my boots. I told him, 'Michael. I'm 71 years old. I've had this house for 39 years.... CAROL S. REBELLO Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with th... SHASHI THAROOR When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,' BILLY HUNTER if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist YUKIO MISHIMA Somehow in the confines in his mind, he started putting together this dream, which is how he describ... BILL FERGUSON My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly to... RODNEY DANGERFIELD Times have changed. The world has changed around us. It's a lot more acceptable. CANDACE COMBS Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world... BRUCE JACKSON He told me he's changed a lot. He used to yell and scream a lot. I think a lot of times when you yel... JOE GIRARDI The first thing he said was, 'Call and cancel my haircut appointment,' ... Then he told me the phone... JENNIFER THOMPSON I spoke to the City Manager and he told me if I wanted to take on the project I could. BETTY WILSON This is the toughest to compete that it's been in my 11 years in the series. When I started, we race... CLARENCE BREWER The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the rig... HARRY WHITE Tom left his life as we know it with a clear sense that after 9/11, he felt like he needed to do som... MARGE EPSTEIN Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ... JACK WELCH Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses... BRANDON SANDERSON Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me? JOHN SHORT Damon told me I'm going to hit the wall eventually, ... He said he just didn't tell anybody. He said... SALIM STOUDAMIRE He would have been forgiven if he changed back. But he said he was a Christian and would always rema... ABDUL WASI The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way... DOUG MORRIS It can absolutely drive you crazy, ... But it's just the way he is. In 29 years [of marriage], he ha... LANCE REYNOLDS When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "s... PLUTARCH My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugl... RODNEY DANGERFIELD A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was ... SAM CLAFLIN My doctor at Sloan Kettering said if he could help me this way, he would. He told me to go to German... LISA MUHS I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you fram... JAKE BARTON
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MEL BROOKS No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the peopl... PHILLIPS BROOKS No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let MEL BROOKS No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which... PHILLIPS BROOKS I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today. GARTH BROOKS Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. PHILLIPS BROOKS It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit... BROOKS ATKINSON You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that m... GARTH BROOKS Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and ... BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr... PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons... BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a... MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ... PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe. MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h... PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv... TERRY BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ... TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me... MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d... PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma... PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS