Quotes About Impact

After spending 40 years recruiting students from high schools all over the country, I know the difference a quality education can make in a young person's life.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film.

I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.

The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

There are many different ways we can choose to reduce our carbon impacts.

The most effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is to fly less often. If everyone took fewer flights, airline companies wouldn't burn as much jet fuel.

There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways.

Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.

A lot of people refer to me as somebody that they know. I think that kind of energy resonates with the programs on Netflix.

I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.