Quotes About Influence

I'm a fan of hip-hop as a whole, period. I love hip-hop. I look at it as a study and I love it.

I really like the cute Beatles, the beginning. I don't really like the moustached Beatles very much. And then the hippie Beatles I'm not super-thrilled with, although they had good songs.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

The first people in a company are the most important. They will hire people like themselves and create a culture that either works or eats away at the chance for success.

For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.

I was trying to help Gazprom Media explain why they took over NTV, a television network. If that somehow down the line helped the Kremlin, that wasn't what I was hired for.

Dad's influence naturally came into me, rather than trying to emulate every detail. His way of teaching me was to be sparse, and to be explosive when it needed to be.

I admire John Prine and his way with words.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

The main difference I'd say is that European cinema has always used less music than American cinema for historical reasons.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their minds - to make them believe that you're the one that can do it.

Big guys and historical figures are often linked because people back in the day were not obsessed with their figure.

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

The idea that all we have is everything that's come before us, and we are the accumulated weight of our own personal histories, is a beautiful concept. And yet it also leaves you asking, 'Is that all there is? Is that all that defines us? Is that all we have?'

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

You can't supervise your own history.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.

Most history books are about power.