Quotes About Legacy

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.'

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.

I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.

I want to keep 'A Star Is Born' with the greatest reverence ever.

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

The American idea my ancestors fought for during the Revolutionary War is as exciting and revolutionary today as it was 250 years ago.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.

I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.

Rich people are afraid to die.

If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor.

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

To be immortalized in a ride is a very cooI thing.

Some guys go to different teams and as they get older, they just want to ride the coattail of the younger guys. I don't want to do that.

It was a hell of a ride in WCW. Still, to this day, I will be WCW until the day I die.

There wasn't really anything I wanted to do other than acting, which is ridiculous because there were no actors in my family, and we didn't know anything about acting.

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.

There's nobody like us in rock history. I'm not saying we're the greatest band in the world - that would be ridiculous.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.

Every day is Father's Day for me to my father. And hopefully I can do the right things for my daughter where she thinks the same.

You don't just let a guy drop off the earth and not come together with everybody who knew him and loved him and respected him. You try to do it the right way.

When I retire, I want to retire the right way.