Quotes About Impact

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

When Wu-Tang came, Wu-Tang was for that era, right there. When Dre had it in the West Coast, it was for that time. Biggie and them, it was for that time.

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the first time I was on stage, I was doing 'West Side Story,' I was 17 and this woman was crying because she liked what I was doing so much.

I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.

We're talking about a chemical that's out there. Not just on one farm in West Virginia, not even just in the public water of an entire community there, but it's now in water all over the country, all over the planet, in the blood of virtually every living thing.

Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.

We simply must stand with the Boy Scouts and give them the support they need to make a difference in communities across West Virginia.

If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Women as consumers are a very powerful force.

I do think that overall blockchains are likely to be a much more powerful force for good than evil.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow.

Artists can be the most powerful people in the world because they can use their voice for good. Politicians should be the most powerful people in the world but they aren't going to do anything.