Quotes About Influence

The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.

During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Television was essentially my college.

It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

I read a lot on self-esteem issues, and a mother has more impact on the self-esteem of her daughter than peer pressure or media or television.

I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

One has to be careful about the kind of content that's shown in films or on television.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.