Public Impact Quotes

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.

I want to reach a wide variety of people.

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

I am very grateful for the opportunities provided to me through appearing on 'American Idol.' The value that the fans and the show have given to my career is not lost on me. However, I have not felt that I have been free to conduct my career in a way that I am comfortable with.

I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

As Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to important social causes.

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

Of course, I do occasionally arouse primeval instincts, but I mean, most men can do that. They can't do it to so many. I just happen to be able to do it to several thousand people. It's fun to do that.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

Amandla Stenberg is so powerful in her energy and what she speaks about and what she projects. I think it's incredible.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.

If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

I want to shock the world, and I'm going to do that through boxing.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.