Quotes About Legacy

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

The year after my father died, I started football training. He was the drive for me; he was my idol. I said to myself, 'I have to run just like him. I have to shoot just like him.'

Freddie Prinze was my idol, and he died, and there is not much of his stuff to look at. But now, your comedy can live on forever.

I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.

I'm a big fan of Wanderlei Silva; he's a big international idol.

My dad had a huge influence. He's my idol, and I'm following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.

My idol was Julio Cesar Chavez, and I said I would be in his position.

We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

My idols are all older.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

I felt that if I could make the world better for the young, that would be the greatest thing we can do.

If I could, I would like my son to study in Jamshedpur, where I did my schooling.

If I could go back in time and see anyone perform, it would have to be Bob Marley.

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

If I could achieve half as much as Broony's achieved in his career, I'll be delighted.

Probably about 10 years ago or so I told my grandmother that I always wanted to make a record of hymns if I could ever make a career of all of this. She kind of held me to it. She passed away in 1999. I just never forgot it.

I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.

I'm the longest-serving secretary of state in Illinois, but I also want to go down in history as one of the best they've ever had. I will work every day toward that.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.