Quotes About Impact

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.

I certainly hope that we can all continue to be forces for good after leaving the White House.

Being on 'House of Cards' really has given me so much more than just a job; the interactions I have had with real White House correspondents, other journalists and bloggers relating to my character Janine - and their thanking me for representing them - has been extraordinary.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

Manipulating an election in a small developing country doesn't have the same sort of ripple effect of electing Donald Trump into the White House.

I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

I worry about how accessible cosmetic surgery has become. Of course, if it has genuinely helped people, and their confidence has grown as a result; who am I to form an opinion?

Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?

It's great to have a job you find rewarding, but let's face it, we're not saving people's lives. 'Oh gosh, they've got a larger Winnebago than me!' Who cares? It's what ends up on the screen that counts.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?

I have made more money than I ever thought anybody should ever make. But who cares if you're worth $500 million or $1 billion? That is not what I want to be remembered for, but for giving something back.

When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.

I am a person who cares deeply about what is happening in the country, and for me, in most ways since getting out of the service, at least, politics has been the way in which I see myself best serving and trying to make things better.

When Shaq gave me the nickname, it wasn't no Joe-Bob giving you a nickname. This is Shaq. It was like, whoa.

Chyna was the woman that made me say 'Whoa, I want to do something like that. I want to change the game.'