Quotes About Influence

I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

Voting, for me, has always been a family affair.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.

Not having sub-governance would be like anyone who owns USD being able to walk into a Google shareholder meeting and voting without owning Google stock just because Google shares happen to be denominated in USD.

More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy.

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into another country's voting system.

I am an entertainer and don't believe I should use this position to preach to anyone about who they should be voting for. Others might disagree, but that's the way I feel.

Voting is a fundamental right in our democracy.

The academy which boasts of 6,000 to 8,000 voting members are most likely to get swayed by the national mood in the US. There is a point person for every movie at the Oscars, who is supposed to promote the film and is trusted by the panel. By keeping all these in mind, Tamil cinema making its way to the final list is quite ambitious.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

I think I can really make people go and vote against the system - voting for Ksenia Sobchak.

Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity to interact with and participate in democracy is available to some, but blocked for many.

My god, 'Vulgar Display Of Power' is still one of the greatest albums ever.

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even realizing it. Once you know how to push people's buttons, you can play them like a piano.

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some people who have giant audiences can't sell books because those audiences don't feel like they need to give them their money.

We're all vulnerable to social approval. The need to belong, to be approved or appreciated by our peers is among the highest human motivations. But now our social approval is in the hands of tech companies.