Quotes About Impact

The shots, all that stuff, kind of comes and goes. You're not going to be hitting every single game. You wish that you could. But there's a lot of other areas to impact the game where I focus more on.

I want to be known for my hitting at least a little bit.

ACT UP was trying to explain to Americans that AIDS could affect all of us: that health care that ended once your disease was expensive could affect more than gay men with HIV or AIDS. We were trying to tell them about the future - a future they didn't yet see and would be forced to accept if they failed to act.

The hoax is that there are some people who are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful, they can change climate. Man can't change climate.

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact.

Why do I have to just focus on hockey? Why can't I help people? Why can't I have fun with my fans?

At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

Sometimes the manager actually is the glue that holds everything together, and when you take that manager out, sometimes that's when things start to go really wrong.

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.

Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.

The impact that you can leave on the other person through your films holds way more weight than just being seen at a party or any other appearance, or being seen at a freaking airport.

I think it is important to communicate how serious climate change is - it would be a disservice not to. But I'm not sure that emphasizing how scared we should all be is the best way to get people to care - I know it makes me want to crawl into a dark hole and never come out.

Even after the first three series, I'm sure I would've been known all my life as James Herriot. I was concerned that I would dig the hole deeper, and I'm sure that's what I've done. I'm sure of it.

I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.

Hollywood was never great for children.

Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I always, always have the Holocaust on my mind.

If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television.

We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.