Quotes About Influence

Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.

I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.

Off the top of my head, Alan Cumming was probably my biggest inspiration, as an actor and as a queer person.

I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.

My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation.

Who needs checks and balances when the left, seemingly, knows and can decide right from wrong? When the left can decide what can be said and what cannot be said? When the left can decide how much money you're allowed to make or whether or not you deserve health care? It is a quest for power. And, it is dangerous.

I would love to approach, like, what are the lives of the people that actually play 'Mythic Quest,' because you have these devs that are affecting their lives.

I started out with a quest for wanting to be in the magazine, and I discovered Hef and how wonderful he is. When he asked me out, I couldn't resist.

The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation's greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they're going to start believing you. And then at some point, they're going to start questioning you and say, 'Why, if it's so bad, are you doing it?'

I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.

When we see the corrupting influence of political decision making in our public health professionals, we should ask questions.

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.