Impact Quotes - Page 36

• We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

  James R. Clapper

  Nsa, Community, Correcting

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• We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

  David Greenberg

  Long, Judging, President

  "Making Presidential History". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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• I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen.

  Phil Ehart

  Queens, Thinking, I Can

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

  Daryl Morey

  Basketball, Sports, Team

  "Hang Up and Listen: The 138! Edition". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. November 28, 2012.

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• The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.

  Charlie Huston

  Hurt, Character, People

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• I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the sky, the night sky, the galaxies, the Orion nebula, have an impact on my mind. I find that awe inspiring. And just to contemplate on what the astronomers have revealed to us about the immense size and so on of the universe. I find that very healthy. And it's a good thing to do.

  John Lennox

  Night, Garden, Sky

  Source: www.asenseofawe.net

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• Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, 'No more masks.' Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Color, Hair

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• In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, New York, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon

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• Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Time, Light, Speed

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• Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Real, Opportunity, Differences

  Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.

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• We have to design policies that have meaningful impacts on the quality of life of women and families. And that's something that I know I can speak passionately about because whether I'm in the White House as First Lady, as long as I have kids and I'm trying to have a life, I'm gonna be trying to make this balance work...

  Michelle Obama

  Meaningful, Kids, White

  "Michelle Obama: The Full Interview". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 15, 2008.

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• When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Memories, Never Change, Changed

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• I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.

  Lady Gaga

  Fun, Artist, Culture

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• Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Engineering, Hazards, Benefits

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• Embrace yourself, create a plan of action and of course, ponder the impact of your thoughts.

  Francisco Leon

  Motivational, Action, Embrace

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• In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Children, June, Two

  "Meet Generation Hot" by Mark Hertsgaard, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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• The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

  Nicholas Stern

  Storm, Climate, Records

  "Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict" by Nicholas Stern, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Tragedy, Matter

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• Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mistake

  "Barack Obama: climate deniers pose serious threat to US security" by Lauren Gambino, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2015.

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• The drafting of a legally binding instrument concerning the human rights impacts of the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises has been proposed. Such a treaty or convention should strengthen the United Nations “protect, respect and remedy” framework of the Guiding Principles, which were unanimously endorsed by the Human Rights Council in 2011.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Rights, Negative, Corporations

  "Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities". Statement at the Workshop at the Human Rights Council, www.ohchr.org. March 11-12, 2014.

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Phones

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• Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, America, People

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• Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

  Paige Omartian

  Giving, Life Is, Lord

  Stormie Omartian, Paige Omartian (2013). “A Book of Prayers for Young Women”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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• Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  About Yourself, Well Being, Wells

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• Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Emotional, Hands

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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