Quotes About Legacy

It's called 'Miles Davis, Prince of Darkness,' and it's about Miles Davis, the genius, and why he was the way he was, and how he changed music so many times. He changed music six times. So, I'm excited about that movie.

When I look back on my life, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, have I swum the entire world? How many miles have I actually swam?'

Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick, early Dionne Warwick.

When we came up, Clive Davis and other record execs would do anything to keep Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, even Johnny Mathis intact, because they wanted to keep alive a musical legacy. As a result, those artists were able to spend 30 to 40 years in the business and still make a living, still have a fan base.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.

Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.

We are gladiators of the third millennium and Rome is the cradle of the gladiators.

Without Mac Miller, there would be no GoldLink.

I walk into a restaurant in Westwood now, and people know it's Reggie Miller. I used to be always Cheryl's little brother.

I'll always be known as Cheryl Miller's little brother.

I will return and I will be a million.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'

I am the first millionaire in my family.

I will come again, and I will be millions.

My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.