Quotes About Impact

For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art. Cinema not only heals me, but it can change the world.

I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

I suppose I'm a healthier role model than, say, Slash of Guns N' Roses.

The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier.

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.

A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.

I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

People who have grown up in a world where this was not a concern and suddenly start hearing about climate change - it's very difficult. It's a very, very abstract concept. So we need to work on making it very educational and very, very clear, in very simple terms.

I remember being turned on to The Beach Boys, hearing 'Surfin' U.S.A.,' I guess, in 1960. But The Beatles really did it to me.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.

It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.

We are one and the same. Our hearts beat as one. If we put our hearts into it - the fashion industry, any industry - our lives will be changed in the process, and the world will be changed as well.

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.