Quotes About Impact

As Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to important social causes.

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

The climate change issue is real and we are seeing its effects right here in South Carolina.

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed.

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

Chernobyl happened in April of 1986. A few months earlier, in January 1986, the Challenger space shuttle exploded. It did not have the impact on the environment and the amount of lives that Chernobyl did, but it was the result of the same exact problem: a failure of a lot of people and institutions over a long period of time.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

I'm concerned that if we don't do more to protect our open spaces and reduce climate change, there will be devastating and lasting impacts on us and future generations.

To win the league with Valencia in Spain after 31 years changed my life.

Juventus in Italy are like Real Madrid in Spain, when you enter the team it feels different.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.

If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

How do we change the world? By sending out a ripple of love that will affect one person at a time.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.