Quotes About Impact

I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.

I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall.

I've had people call me and tell me, 'You've given me courage.' It's fantastic... it's heart-warming to know you can be a ray of hope in somebody's life.

Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential.

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.

My goal is to reach as many people as possible and inspire them.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

But the whole viewership of 'Balika Vadhu' is more than all shows of mine put together. The show has a lot of reach and that has worked for me.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

We, as Christians, have a legacy to leave, and it's all about a love of Christ to permeate the music and reach the hearts of all of the people out there, that don't know him and do know him.

So when you make a disaster movie that is trying to say something about our world, you reach for images that haunt you.

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

I was the first white British woman to reach No 1 on the R&B chart - the American black music chart.

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

I want to reach as many people as I can.

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

It's a great responsibility playing a real-life character because the person has reached a certain position after undergoing a lot of things.

It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.

'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.

I reached a point where - I have a real heart and concern for families and for youth, and the more I became involved in working through a ministry, the more I realized how powerful the entertainment industry was and how irresponsible it was.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.