Quotes About Influence

The R&B will always prevail. It will always last. The blues will always last.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

A lot of people try to control how you access gaming. You know, they're trying to prevent people from buying games.

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.

A lot of what is preventing us from getting things done on the federal level is that there is too much influence from special interests over members of Congress.

By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.'

I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don't necessarily think is a good role model.

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.