Quotes About Impact

The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

Whether anyone has ever changed their mind as a result of a celebrity endorsement of a candidate is a bit of a mystery.

A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.

Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.

People can forget your name, but if you excel at what you do, at least someone will remember you.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.

Being named NFLPA Community MVP is an amazing honor.

Martin Luther King didn't know he was going to have a day named after him; Muhammad Ali didn't know he was going to be the people's champion. He was doing what he was doing because it was right.

I got a buddy named Brandon, who I boxed with for a long time, and I always think about him, or my daughter. If they look at something I've done, or they've seen me in the world and they don't recognize me, then I've done something wrong.

The role and the script are not the only factor to chose or do a film, but the names associated with the project also matters.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

When audiences start calling you by your character's names, your job is done!

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

It is a nice feeling when the audience reaches out to me by my character names from the films that I have done.

If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.

As a nanny i see the way children begin to flag in the run up to lunch time so i know food definitely has a big impact on a child's mental state.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of Hill House' and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind.

I think through humor you can get a point across better than through just a dramatic narrative.