Quotes About Influence

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.

It seems like we live and die by the names we are given, and we harm or heal by the names we give.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its ten thousands.

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Money has a long and sinister reach. It slips into the system, changes hands And starts to eat away at the foundations Of everything we stand for.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, My big sister is asking me?

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.