Quotes About Legacy

Honestly, when I left the business, in time, some people might remember you and some might say they knew the name. But, people move on and there are new interests and all kinds of different things go on all the time. So, it surprised me how people have not forgotten.

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our history and that Black history shouldn't just be segmented into one month and we just move on. This is a huge part of the fabric of our country.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

The hippy movement was a failure.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.

Obviously, Fred Astaire was a legend. I've tried to copy some of his movements.

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

You don't grow up with Hulk Hogan as your dad and not learn a few moves.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar's life. That is something I'm looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

I've been the movie business for over 50 years, and I've done everything imaginable that could be done or ever was done by anybody.

The Rock now the hottest thing. He come from wrestling background. Father, mother, grandfather all from wrestling business: 2-3 generations. I watch his movie. He great movie star, and I be wrestling with his father Rocky Johnson. I love them.

I don't think I am an action movie star now; I've just done a couple of action movies! I'm just so respectful of the people that have come before me and the hard work they've put in.

I read an article some years back in which Emma Thompson demeaned my mother's acting ability. My mother would be the first person to say that she wasn't the best actress in the world. But she was a movie star.

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

My father is always with me. But moving forward and making my father more proud of me is very important. Taking care of my family, as my father did, is even more important.

I knew Kobe pretty well and he was a guy that was always moving forward.

I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.