Quotes About Impact

Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how much of the irrational behavior really affects prices? It turns out that's very difficult to answer.

A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.

I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo.

But I've met a few fans from across the world who've had my name tattooed on them.

I have literally run into 20 people all around the world with my face tattooed on them.

I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.

Every little interaction I had with Scorsese is forever tattooed on my brain.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

People come up to me with tattoos of my lyrics!

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.

We made 'Baahubali' with pure intentions. It taught us that we might be remembered for the rest of our lives if we do something with good intentions in our hearts.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.