Quotes About Impact

Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office.

If children knew what the effects are of using single-use plastic straws for drinking sodas or whatever, they might reconsider and use paper straws or no straws at all.

When people hear a footballer speaking, they can think about it and maybe even reconsider the prejudices they have.

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.

Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media's radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.

I learned that being sort of legitimately recognized by a legitimate and traditional recording academy, it made people look at us a bit differently. Not everyone, but some people.

Honestly, recording with Faith Evans blew me away.

A stage play is beautiful only when it is seen as a stage play, just like you cannot get the same effect of a live Bharatanatyam performance in a recording.

I'm always on the prowl for the kinds of recordings that can inspire and potentially make a difference.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

I was in middle school when Hurricane Hugo hit in 1989. I still remember the sounds from that night and the challenges of recovering.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.