Quotes About Influence

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.

If I'm not around, not only do I fail my sons, I fail myself. Becoming a father changed my outlook and gave me a whole other reason to be around.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion, can be reasonably certain that their values and ways of socialized behaving will be adopted by the next generation.

Every one of us owes a debt to the people who have shaped our minds and influenced our thinking and very often reasoning. For some, it is a school teacher or then professor in college for others, it could be a family member, a character of a book or movie.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

I've always loved American stand-up. Richard Pryor is one of the main reasons I got into stand-up. After Pryor, I made my way through the other great American comics, then finally got into the British ones over here.

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

The real trendsetters are the ones who rebel. Those are the ones who everyone in fashion eventually follows.

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.