Quotes About Legacy

I wanted a way to pass on all the gifts, all the instruction that I've been given.

I relate with military families and Gold Star families. Gold Star families are families where somebody didn't come home. My father died in 1949. He was a flight instructor in the Army Air Corp.

I've got good genes. My dad was a martial arts instructor - and he was good.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

Bob Rondeau - he'll never know this - but he was so instrumental. He is a legend to me and had a major impact in my life.

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

I play as many instruments as Prince, and I can write as many songs as him, but he'll be way better than me forever.

People think because I'm crazy, I don't know anything. My dad played bass with Hector Lavoe, with Marc Anthony, with Ricky Martin, with people who had nothing to do with reggaeton. I grew up watching him play all kinds of instruments. It's something I carry in my blood.

I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.

I want to exit from this sport with my head intact.

Whatever you think of George W. Bush, he left office with his faith intact, and I respect that.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

My father made me who I am; he was incredibly intellectually generous.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

The biggest and most interesting challenge is to bring Elsa Schiaparelli's legacy to the present and the future. She had an exceptional, incredible, and intelligent approach; she was ahead of her times.

I started out with V Shantaram. But my favourite director has been Gulzar, with whom I did intelligent cinema in movies like 'Khushboo,' 'Kinara' and 'Parichay.'

I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.

Being the first female CEO of one of the Big Four, I certainly intend to pay it forward.

I don't intend to die.