Quotes About Legacy

People say sometimes that I'm distracted. I'm not distracted. I'm being smart. I'm capitalizing while the iron is hot. That's why I'm trying to do movies. I do the podcast. I do a radio show. I work on FOX. I have a gym; I have a lot of things going on. That's because when I'm done, I want to be set up.

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

Thackeray is an institution that cannot become irrelevant because of one election.

I think records are irrelevant, but I'm being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

I don't think that it's ever irrelevant to know where you came from, to know your history, and to improve upon your history.

I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

One thing that has irritated me in the sport of boxing since I stopped is I'm really surprised that no one has come along to excite me like me.

We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.

George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.

When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

The nation of Israel has had enough one-time leaders.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are.

Losing to a Hall of Famer, a legend, Manny Pacquiao, it is what it is. It was a great fight and the fans loved it. I lost a title but I gained respect with how I fought that night.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.