Quotes About Impact

Because Laura Palmer was dead... there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me.

The death of Cyrille Regis, a giant in so many ways, was such a shock and deeply upsetting.

I went to see my first gig when I was 15 - it was Loyle Carner at Shepherd's Bush - and I remember just feeling the bass in my feet and in my body. I was so energised.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

The Brodus Clay have gimmick good for the kids and make the people happy.

Good eyebrows give your face definition.

My success has given confidence to many others.

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

I like giving back to the community, because it lasts a long time.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Glamour has the potential to be very powerful in that way without saying anything.

I work on the assumption that in the crowded mass communication field today you have to get in and get out with your message as quickly and simply as possible. You must communicate the maximum with a single glance.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

You cannot overstate, I don't think, the impact of a show like 'Glee' on a generation.

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atrocious.

Think globally, act locally.

The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe.

I grew up outside of Washington D.C., a town in which the largest industry is government and in which almost everyone I knew was involved in creating policies which impact people across our country and around the globe.