Quotes About Influence

My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.

While we read history we make history.

I first wore a hat after seeing a friend wear a hat. It seemed like a neat way to keep snow off my head without having to wear a beanie, so I tried it on for a while. Turns out I started wearing the hat at around the time people took pictures of me and put them online and in newspapers, so it kind of became part of my public image.

While monetary policy can contribute to growth by supporting a durable expansion in a context of price stability, it cannot reliably affect the long-run sustainable level of the economy's growth.

I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.

Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.

My mom and dad divorced when I was 8 years old, but my Dad never left my life. We would go over there on weekends and he'd be playing his guitar, listening to Bobby Blue Bland and B. B. King and KBLX radio while he was out in the garage painting custom cars.

Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.

When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

The decision on how philanthropic money is spent is made on the whims and personal interests of the wealthy, rather than what is best.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

A huge portion of our lives involves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It is time in which we are directed by the needs and whims of others, and denied the right to make our own choices.

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

A lot of times I think the cast members, the lead characters in a show really set the tone for the show. On some shows, the stars of the show will just be whining and complaining and spending the whole time texting their boyfriends on their Blackberries, and there's just no attention given to the work.

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

It's no secret I was part of John Dingell's whip team.

The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.