Quotes About Influence

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.

I've never been able to keep my finger on the pulse of fashion.

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

Mum had pumped me so full of anger, I couldn't throw it off.

That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

When I introduce you to somebody, his name is Big Pun. When I introduce you to somebody, his name is DJ Khaled. When I introduce you to an artist, her name is Remy Ma. If I introduce you to somebody, it's Cool and Dre or Scott Storch - people who change the face of the game.

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

I did not watch many of my father's films because he used to do action movies. So when anyone punched my dad I used to get scared. I have loved him in comedies. I loved him in 'Hera Pheri.'

I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

I'm being invaded by fashion pundits.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.

The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.