Quotes About Impact

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'

I know I am old-fashioned, but I don't want to bring out a fashion line, I don't want to bring out an album. I just want to do the work as best as I can, and if that effects change for somebody, then that is great. I don't want to change the world.

It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.

I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

In my case, both my grandmothers made a huge impact on my early childhood days. But, as I grew older, people rarely made an impact or influenced me.

I grew up with 2 older brothers, the oldest of which was big into film. Hanging around him got me seeing so much good stuff at an early age. Maybe a 10-year-old should not be watching 'Boyz N the Hood' like 10 times in a row? I don't know. But it probably shaped me in some way.

The nice thing about 'Miranda' especially is that the audience that we had was school kids right through to pensioners. It seems to be a show that people watch as a family, so it was the first job I've been involved in that certainly my oldest daughter and my middle daughter are big fans of, and proud that I'm in it, which is a nice feeling.

Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

I think that Jamie Oliver did more good for the nation's cooking when he was just cooking than by telling us what chickens we should eat.

Olivia Chow is no Jack Layton.

The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.

Leaders are important but not omnipotent.

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.

When I'm talking about one of the things that define my career and what is most special to me, stats, they are what they are. The bottom line is you want to impact the place you go and the people you're around, and I hope I've done that in my football career, both on and off the field.

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others.

Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.