Quotes About Legacy

When Dad looked at football players, he would take them in his own image. That's what he grew up around; that's what he was when he was a master sergeant in the Korean War. That's what I took, and that's what I want on my football team.

My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended because of that.

We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.

I built Kosovo for 10 years.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

Eminem is like a God to me. Besides that, Kurt Cobain has been my evergreen musical guru.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

How often do you get a movie where the coolest character has your own real last name? I played Bob Morales as a cross between my own father - the passion, the fury - and the real Bob Morales. I loved that movie. People, kids always come up to me and tell me how much they still love 'La Bamba.'

There won't be more Messis, and we don't expect there to be more, as there won't be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me.

Def Jam is an iconic label.

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, made about 1,200 violins, half of which still survive. After his death in 1737, factories churned out hundreds of thousands of copies. And every day, people bring violins with Stradivarius labels to appraisers, thinking they have bought the genuine article for a song.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who cultivated it.

My father was a scientist, and I grew up in his laboratory. Maybe I am like him, but he is not like me.

I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did.

Labour's disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

businessman. Though only fifty years old, the college dropout was a technology rock star, a living legend to millions of people around the world. In his early twenties, Jobs almost single-handedly introduced the world

Whatever is lost stays alive if we remember it.