Christmas Humphreys Quotes
It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.
