Quotes About Impact

Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.

My life has definitely changed since 'Modern Family.' The show has made me more responsible, I really want to be a good role model for all kids so I have to think about what I say and do and how it looks to other kids!

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

You know, he's a bit of a rock star, but I think he's consciously learnt how to make people feel comfortable around him. Because otherwise, how could anyone act opposite him? The whole time you'd be thinking, 'My god, it's Johnny Depp!'

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

There's no federal government agency that ought to be immune from having to explain the potential financial impact of an action they've taken or intend to take. We deserve the specifics.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

I just thought I could broaden my impact and my reach by starting a non-profit and putting investment into our community.

We shared our father with the world.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.