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“I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.”

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Author:Ava DuVernay

“Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.”

Worry Issues Impact Climate Climate Change Enormous

Author:Barack Obama

“The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.”

People Mind Important Social Brain Environment Impact Gateways Social Environment

Author:Michael Marmot

“This year's [2016] White House holiday theme is "The Gift of the Holidays," and our decorations reflect some of our greatest gifts as a nation: from our incredible military families, to the life-changing impact of a great education.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.”

Economic Impact Immigration Illegal Taxpayers Illegal Immigration

Author:Ric Keller

“Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.”

Guy Games Player Impact League

Author:Russell Westbrook

“Because [Russel Westbrook] is so rare and impacts the game in so many different ways, you see the usage and the amount of time he's playing and say, 'is this sustainable?' I look at it the other way. Are we playing the right way, are we playing together as a team, and what are his minutes like? This is not a guy that's playing 42 minutes a night. When he goes out there he's going to play to who he is, and I think he also understands that in order for our team to be the best we can be he's got to incorporate and help everybody grow as players.”

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Author:Russell Westbrook

“I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even in terms of being, to a degree, naïve. Because naiveté comes from lack of information.”

Term Information Degrees Impact Jesuit

Author:Sergio Leone

“Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have a good time, what they prefer. I associate this with young people. But many times I think this infantile quality is much better than the false, incomplete concept of adulthood.”

People Thinking Dream Young Desire Quality Concepts Impact Good Times Adulthood Associates Having A Good Time Incomplete Disneyland Infantile

Author:Sergio Leone

“I've always found it sort of hilarious, and occasionally horrifying, how these images [in mass media] impact us, and especially when it comes to love and sex and relationships, I think we sometimes develop unrealistic expectations.”

Thinking Sometimes Found Sex Media Mass Expectations Impact Mass Media Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.”

People Needs Littles Helping Jobs Force Justice Late Program Tasks Direct Crisis Impact Obvious Administration Department Reports Too Late Mortgage 1930s Task Forces Mortgage Crisis

Author:Jesse Jackson

“State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of deregulation) seek in vain the individual solutions to the socially fabricated life problems.”

States Problem Government Individual Fate Solutions Impact Misery Locals Vain Remedy Decree Deprivation State Government Deregulation

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.”

People Television Perception Impact

Author:Gloria Calderon Kellett

“I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard. Why would you want a camera on your phone? But as we see the impact of it, it has allowed for a mass verification of what black people have been saying.”

People Want Has Beens Ideas Remember Black Heard Mass Cameras Impact Phones Black People Remember When Verification

Author:Arthur Jafa

“There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.”

Ifs Doe Today Crisis Impact Financial Asia Financial Crisis Southeast Asia

Author:Barack Obama

“When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.”

“Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.”

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Author:John Lewis

“Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.”

“One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.”

Different Choices President Powerful Attention Office Pressure Impact Focused Different Directions Making Choices Time Goes By Bandwidth

Author:Barack Obama

“Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.”

Art Reflection Art Is Impact

Author:Kiki Smith

“The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.”

Ifs Way Wells States Government Remember Order Achieve Limits Speech Impact Zone Free Speech Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Edward Snowden

“[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.”

Realizing Consciousness Streets Wall Impact Occupy Wall Street

Author:Edward Snowden

“I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.”

Matter Stories Practice Clear Impact Compelling

Author:Simon Sinek

“I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting rights has had on our African-American brothers and sisters. I have witnessed it.”

Rights Brother Impact Discrimination Civil Rights African American Denial Voting Brothers And Sisters Relentless Right To Vote

Author:Jeff Sessions

“When a nation uses their improperly gained or intelligence-wise gained information to take policy positions that impact another nation's democracy or their approach to any issue, then that raises real serious matters.”

Real Matter Use Nations Democracy Issues Wise Information Policy Position Serious Approach Raises Impact

Author:Jeff Sessions

“To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.”

Done Light Impact Shining Bad Things Being Done Positive Impact

Author:Ezra G. Levin

“There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.”

“The number-one reason women say they returned to their abuser is financial insecurity. Often they have kids with them. They say half of the 66 million women and kids living in poverty in the US wouldn't be if women were just paid their full dollar. That's an enormous impact we could make on child hunger.”

Ifs Children Reason Kids Numbers Half Poverty Millions Paid Impact Dollars Financial Hunger Enormous Insecurity Abusers

Author:Patricia Arquette

“[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.”

“We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.”

Effects Impact Biblical Preaching Literacy Lively

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.”

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Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as a response to the college's refusal to hire Professor Nathan Hare [the so-called father of black studies], and certainly unified the college around issues of justice. These issues were reflected in many communities: the Asian American community, Hispanic community, Native American community.”

“Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an impact on us.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I come back to what I had said earlier: the policies might be there but are people benefiting from the policies? You do find that in many instances, though the policies exist, they are not having the necessary impact. That is a particular challenge in local government, because that is where all the services get delivered.”

People Said Government Might Challenges Policy Particular Impact Locals Instance Local Government

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime.”

People Needs Has Beens Done Enough Might Process Crime Consequence Victim Remains Impact Criminals Affected Might Have Been Civil Society Charter Positive Impact

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.”

Study Research Logic Impact Speed Territory Organisation

Author:Paul Virilio

“I've always - outside of the outfielders running over the hump, and it could be slightly dangerous, and it can impact play; of course it can. But on the other side I think, again, just if you're pitching, a relief pitcher, I think it's kind of a great place to get involved in a game.”

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Author:Joe Maddon

“My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.”

Courses Father Teacher My Family Impact Grandfather Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.”

People Knows World Problem Young Break Impact Around The World Empowered Living Things Great Power Break Through

Author:Jane Goodall

“The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.”

Long Term Common Innovation Impact Long Term Associates Underestimate Misunderstanding Short Term Disruptive Overestimate Disruptive Innovation

Author:Geoffrey Moore

“It was really always about bringing back [James] Baldwin's words in all their rawness, in all their impact - in the way he analyzes not only this country but also the history of this country, the images that this country is fabricating through Hollywood, and what consequence that has in our imagination.”

Way Country Imagination Consequence Hollywood Impact Rawness

Author:Raoul Peck

“In the field of education, educators know that they leave a lasting impact on their students for better or for worse. Trust is established or diminished in the classroom and very good educators understand that they are fallible. Despite their best efforts, they will not always do the best for each student.”

Knows Effort Fields Students Impact Very Good Despite Lasting Classroom Do The Best Educator Best Effort Lasting Impact

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.”

“I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.”

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Author:Frank Iero

“I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and the overall power is achieved in bringing all impoverished people together. The common denominator is pain, because we all suffer through the deaths of loved ones and eventually suffer death.”

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Author:David Banner

“My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.”

People Thinking Writing Interest Views Right Now Impact Various Publish

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he didn't often talk about. I remember seeing [grandfather] as a child. He was working in a mine that was fairly close to their home there in Betsy Lane, Ky., and it was so close in proximity that he wouldn't clean up or shower there. He would just drive back home. And I remember one time seeing him come in and it was like seeing an alien person show up because he was still covered in coal dust and soot, and it had a profound impact on me.”

“I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that's part of what you hear in the first verse of "Miner's Prayer."”

Firsts Kids Law Mother Prayer Particular Brother Impact Fingers Disaster Injury Grandmother Grandfather Verses My Grandmother My Grandfather In-laws Miners Brother In Law

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.”

Mean Spirituality Direct Connections Remains Impact Organized Organized Religion Indelible

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.”

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Author:Ashley Graham

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