Quotes About Influence

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.

You only have but so much time to make an impact or people will forget you. My goal always is to make the biggest impact possible.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

Most of the time, stuff doesn't just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.