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They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

— Andy Warhol

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An editorial interpretation.

The speaker challenges the idea that time itself produces change, placing responsibility on people's actions instead. The contrast shifts attention from waiting to doing. Read as a prompt to act, it treats the passage of time as insufficient without someone's deliberate effort.

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