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• When I became a judge, I stopped being a practicing attorney. And that was a big change in role.The role of a practicing attorney is to achieve a desirable result for the client in the particular case at hand. But a judge can't think that way. A judge can't have any agenda, a judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case and a judge certainly doesn't have a client.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Hands, Judging

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Small things lead to big changes.

  Allen Hershkowitz

  Bigs, Small Things

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• Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

  Seth Godin

  Change, Games, Cost

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• If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

  Phil Robertson

  White, America, Roots

  "What we learned from 'Duck Dynasty' on 'Fox & Friends' this week". www.foxnews.com. September 20, 2013.

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• America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate, the intellectuals - academics, journalists and so on - are bought off. And that's a big change that happened in the United States in the last 30 or 40 years.

  Thomas Pogge

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.

  Troy Denning

  Running, Crucible, Stories

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• In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Change, Pain, Disappointment

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.229, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

  Eric Topol

  Change, Real, Smartphones

  "New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.

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• It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Country, New York, Boys

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• The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.

  Tim Finn

  Strong, People, Hip Hop

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• Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.

  Jonny Lang

  Years, Two, Half

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• The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Sailing, Ships

  "The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview". Interview with Jeff Jetton and Dakota Fine, chomsky.info. March 9, 2011.

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• Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

  Rose Byrne

  Song, Art, Book

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to play for 200 people and now I'm selling out places that hold 16,000 people. It's a big change, and it's so cool to see people out there screaming the words to songs that I wrote. It just really reassures me that what I'm doing is working, and it really boosts my confidence, as far as on stage as a performer and a writer.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.today.com

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• The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. So you don't have to wait for a letter to get to England in six weeks, you have almost instant communication. That was an enormous shift.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Waiting, Sailing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Thinking, Get Better

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.

  Al Gore

  Party, People, Arms

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, 2006.

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• It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.

  Jonathan Horton

  Gymnastics, Journey, College

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home with broadband. There was a big change.It used to be people used the Internet primarily at work, because that's where they had a good connection. Now they're using it at home. And the second big change is, they used it not just to get information, but to communicate with one another. And, so, it became not simply an information exchange, but a personal exchange, a communication mechanism.

  Esther Dyson

  Communication, Home, Phones

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

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• There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

  Neil Peart

  Reality, People, World

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• I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Couple, Fighting, Army

  "Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• I live in Sydney now. I came here for the show and never went home - I do like it, it's a big change... it's a big city, it's very fast.

  Kate DeAraugo

  Home, Cities, Bigs

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• Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.

  Alicia Keys

  Crazy, Creativity, Meditation

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

  Philip Glass

  Thinking, Years, Radical Change

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

  Tim Winton

  Marine, Growing, May

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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