Kurt Braunohler Quotes

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Success is more than doing very well for a few. Success is doing right for many.

That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else.

It's incredible to be able to make an impact and use the platform that we have in the right way.

I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.'' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.