Can't Change Quotes - Page 8

• Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

  Gilda Radner

  Light, Fame, Bulbs

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• Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

  Lydia Lunch

  Miserable, Wells, Can't Change

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• You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don’t get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

  Gail Caldwell

  Mistake, Choices, One Day

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• There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

  Dan Harris

  Unhappy, Being Unhappy, Can't Change

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• I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

  Bijou Phillips

  World, Changing The World, Can't Change

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• You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Compassion, Regimes, Harder

  "'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer". Salmagundi, 113, 1997.

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• Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

  Jenny Holzer

  Advice, Enjoy, Can't Change

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

  Thom Yorke

  Two, People, World

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• If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

  Audre Lorde

  Reality, Perception, Can't Change

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• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  Daisy Donovan

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

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• Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Exercise, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

  Darrin Patrick

  Past, Worry, Moments

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• The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Death, God

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin

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• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Political

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.

  Arthur Bradford

  Mean, Typewriters, Here And There

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, and you can't change a single word, it's a totally different thing. I was surprised by what that thing was.

  Danielle Dutton

  Writing, Different, Done

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One thing I do know, you can't change hatred by showing those people that they're wrong about us.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Hatred, Can't Change

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Hillary Clinton's message is old and tired. Her message is that things can't change. My message is that things have to change.

  Donald Trump

  Tired, Messages, Clinton

  "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, www.cnn.com. June 22, 2016.

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• People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.

  Thom Andersen

  Book, People, Mind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.

  Ruba Nadda

  Sex, Hard Work, Cutting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You can't change when you're defensive.

  George Kohlrieser

  Can't Change

  "Overcome Obstacles for Change" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2014.

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• We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

  Germaine Greer

  Moon, Tides, Harmony

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• If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Want

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• If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

  Chuck D

  People, Can't Change, Ifs

  Song: Generation Wrekked

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