Legacy Quotes - Page 19

• One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, Careers, Hype

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• For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Recovery, Fighting

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• You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

  Ice Cube

  Done, Jordan, Scared

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• What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the geographical entity, we seek to comprehend the cultural complexity; to honour the intellectual and spiritual legacy; and to sustain our parents’ cultures.

  Taiye Selasi

  Spiritual, Mean, Unique

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• It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

  Aaliyah

  Memories, Long, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Book, Technology, Humanity

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• The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

  Ted Cruz

  Leader, President, Liberty

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• Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

  Helen Beardsley

  Children, Hard Work, Giving

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• Its very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... youre not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.

  George Foreman

  Nice, Kids, People

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• The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

  Charles S. Maier

  Ukraine, Roles, Genocide

  Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

  Stewart Udall

  Land, Choices, Titles

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

  Alan Cranston

  Gun, America, Hatred

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• One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.

  David Auburn

  Father, Writing, Ideas

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• I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

  Mike Portnoy

  Honor, Records, Pay

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• The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Western, Greece

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• I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

  Renee Fleming

  Hurt, Passion, People

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• I dont think about the Fonda legacy much.

  Troy Garity

  Thinking

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• I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Dynasty, Periods

  "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• Don't follow in my footsteps. Create your own legacy! Be you! Do what you do! Stay focused! Stay positive about whatever goals you want to accomplish! Don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't, because you always can. To this day, I have people trying to discourage me, and telling me I should hang it up. I call them clowns.

  Bow Wow

  People, Goal, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will work out. That's what drives me. I'm not looking for legacy or history books or whatever. I know what we've done here has saved a significant number of lives. The burden is not on me. It's on the politicians who made the decisions to limit what we're doing. They're the ones who are going to pay a price, in my judgment, if crime significantly increases.

  Raymond Kelly

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• There's a great legacy before me. Many, many fantastic actors, artists, writers have come before me and created Superman. I'm very honored to be able to be a part of it.

  Brandon Routh

  Artist, Fantastic, Honored

  "Talking the Man Of Steel with Superman Returns Brandon Routh". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. June 22, 2006.

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• What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

  Maurice Sendak

  Leaving, Leaving A Legacy, Ripe

  "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in a special measure to this day.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Special, World, Flesh

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• Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

  Eric L. Haney

  May, Poverty, Impossible

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• My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Care, Affordable, Policy

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