Quotes About Influence

Hugh Hefner was instrumental in my career, you know, by promoting the free-speech movement. People forget that about him.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.

The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn't about promoting you anymore. It's about promoting something bigger than you.

From toothpastes to crayons, instant noodles, chocolates and energy drinks, corporate India is now promoting these in schoolrooms.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

Alan Pardew brought me to Southampton and was a great influence and then we had consecutive promotions under Nigel Adkins.

I just want to thank police for all this great promotion that they're giving me, all these cancellations, which are making me more powerful.

Advertisers with their bag of goodies and promotions have entered classrooms and begun to put up billboards and posters inside schools. They persuade cash-starved schools into opening their doors to them by paying for access to classrooms and space for their advertising material and promotions.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

I would not advise a young player to even listen to Byron Scott, because he is the worst coach at communicating with young guys, and I'm living proof.

There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.