Quotes About Influence

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'

TV tends to laud the person with the perfect one-liner rather than the one with the better idea.

I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.

What we do have is a system in which power tends to be awarded to people on the basis that they are corruptible.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Big time blues and music city. It's always been in my bloodline.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Many tennis coaches are enablers. They need the job more than the player needs the coach, and if the coach needs the job more than the player needs the coach, he can't effect change.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

It's still important to have my dad there. He's the one that brought me up and we spent a lot of time together. It's very difficult for me to let him go. He knows what's best for me and my tennis.

Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.