Quotes About Impact

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Midwest elections have consequences.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat.

The things that I leave creatively are going to stay here long past me. That's the reason why the album is called '4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time.'

The arrival of Beckham at Milan is not just a matter of marketing.

AC Milan would never have been the same club without Paolo Maldini or Franco Baresi and they certainly would have never had the same amount of success.

Kaka, he made history with Milan and if he is loved so much it means he did well.

Generally, the real question in a midterm year is whether the damage for the ruling party will be severe or mild.

When I first watched '8 Mile,' it was amazing. It got me. I loved it.

Here's what we know: after the Secure Fence Act, we have built 600 miles of wall and fencing on a 2,000 mile border. What that has done is not in any demonstrable way made us safer.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world.

You never really know when you're going a hundred miles a minute what you're doing to your body.

'Breathless' was an important milestone in my life.

At first, we were militant about our faith, really in people's faces. We used to say, 'I don't care if they kick us off the stage - I'm gonna tell them about Jesus!' But what good did that do? They never invited us back to the club.

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

I think film can change lives. Doing 'Milk' changed mine, for sure. When I see that someone like Harvey Milk changed his life and the lives of many others in just eight years, I feel powerful. I go out of the cinema saying, 'Maybe there's something I can do, too.'

I was very lucky to hear the story of Harvey Milk, it was life-saving for me. I wanted to share it in case it helped others, but the story of one gay man isn't going to do it.

Millennials are eager to make an impact, which makes them ideal for start-ups.

I'm nicknaming millennials 'the purpose generation' because we're making so many decisions.

The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.