Quotes About Legacy

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

Hinkley will be a ghost town. It will be another town lost in America due to pollution.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he's the real King of Pop.

Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind.

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.

Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could.

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just look at them like pop stars.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

E.C. Segar, who created 'Thimble Theatre' and 'Popeye,' is one of my favorite cartoonists.