Quotes About Influence

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.

At least on the domestic side of things that you're seeing, [Mike] Pence has that influence big time. But when it comes with what political fights to have?

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read.

When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.