Quotes About Legacy

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

I was a huge fan of Rick Rude and Arn Anderson. There's many guys, many performers in the past who turned me into the sports entertainer I am today.

Artists like Mehmood, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan are performers... they are born in centuries.

'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

I do a lot of work that's permanent. The drawings, the sculptures, they're permanent.

I grew up with a father who didn't wear a watch, and this has permanently marked my relationship with time.

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.

To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently be displayed in a building like the United Center says it all. It's hard to put into words because it is such an honor. It's great to know that something like that will be around forever.

Permit me to be immodest, but I did something for this country.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Machicomoco will stand in perpetuity, ensuring that we continue to learn from our past, celebrate the present, and aspire to a better future, one that celebrates the heritage of our Commonwealth and all its people.

My grandfather was an American Communist, and he married my grandmother, who was a Russian Communist. During the 1950s, the McCarthy era, my family was viciously persecuted.

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.

He was very sweet, but just his persona was intimidating. He was Gregg Allman. I think a lot of people had that feeling when they met him.