Quotes About Influence

It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.

Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it.

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

The crux of our power isn't only in our voice. It is in our economic function in society.

The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him.

It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

I've been lucky enough to have good coaches my whole career who just teach you the right way, teach you the fundamentals.

Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.

Election funding is one of the biggest fault lines in our electoral system.

It's important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and who is shaping our political discussion? These are all questions that are important to a healthy democracy.

It should be alarming to every tax-paying citizen that the government could turn federal settlement funds into fuel for activist groups that exert power and influence over Washington.

I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

People are bringing a lot more of that funk element into their music, you know, with Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson - that's one that you never thought you would hear something like that on the radio again 'cause it just sounds so much like the Back Bay and what they were doing with music back then.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

I always say dad was a lot more funky than people think.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.