Quotes About Influence

He'd been many things to me, Nathaniel had, most of them indescribable. But he never looked so much of a puppet as he did now. And already it had all gone wrong.

So, naturalists observe, a fleaHath smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em;And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet, in his kind,Is bit by him that comes behind.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

No child will ever accept a maxim that is preached but not followed by the preacher. It is a waste of breath for the father to order his Sons to keep their temper, to behave like gentlemen, or to be good sportsmen, if he does or is himself none of these things.

If children see temper uncontrolled, hear gossip, uncharitableness and suspicion of neighbors, witness arrogant sharp-dealing or lax honor, their own characters can scarcely escape perversion. In the same way others can not easily fail to be thoroughbred who have never seen or heard their parents do or say an ignoble thing.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me.

Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I set precedents.

And it's absurd, how people hang on every word

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

So many things shape our lives, our choices, our decisions, but in the end we make our own destiny. – Jack Maguire (hero)

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.