Quotes About Influence

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.

It's time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we're gonna save our kids.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings