Quotes About Influence

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

You cannot have an integrated world and have your say all the time. America can lead the world towards that, but we cannot dominate and run the world in that direction. There is a big difference.

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

From the time I wake up until the time I go to bed, music is unfortunately on my mind, on my stereo, or I'm making it or talking about it.

I think there's no doubt that George Washington was the most important American to this time.

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.