Quotes About Legacy

Actually, I just want to entertain people. Put that in my obituary, a final picture, all dark in the background.

If the lead line in my obituary is 'She once tweeted that the president is a white supremacist,' I will see my life as a professional disappointment.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

My objective is not to play for money, as I just want to leave good memories. That is the most important thing!

My objective since I started my career was: become the champion, remain the champion, retire the champion.

The Ballon d'Or is one of my objectives, but it will be complicated so long as Ronaldo and Messi are around.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents' life had purpose.

I was raised in, and presumably to, the cutlery business. I really didn't think that that's what I wanted to do for a career. But I felt a certain obligation to give it a try.

The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words 'Never Forget' become irksome eventually.

I'm the last senior executive who was hired by Roy Vagelos. It's an honor, but it also imposes upon me an obligation not only to think about his legacy but also about this company's legacy.

We all have an obligation to pass on a better environment to our kids.

I never sat down and said, 'Now I must make a contribution, that one person can make a difference.' But I felt I was in a position where I could contribute. I never thought of it in the light of history or my brothers. I just felt I had an obligation.

The players before me got this TV revenue so high that I can make money to support my family forever, and I feel like it's an obligation for us to leave the game better than when we first got it, for the future.

I believe that we do have an obligation to leave the world a better place than we found it.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

When I worked as music associate, I have observed my parents and grandparents waiting to see my name on the screen. But, it wouldn't be there.

A film based on my life would not be as interesting as my father. I have not lived a life as enriching as my father. I have only been observer to his life, so I think I'm the best person to make a documentary on him.

I'm not really obsessed with death.