Quotes About Influence

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us.

A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I remember the day I first heard what Timbaland and Aaliyah did - that intersection of her pretty voice and his weird, resonant production. I remember where I was and what I was doing. It was a major situation. We're trying to continue that legacy.

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned.

Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they cannot be disentangled.

Previously, someone would interview me, and if they liked me, it'd be a great story. If they hated me, it'd be a horrible story. I had no way to say anything. Social media changed things for people who didn't have a voice.

Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

When I get finished with you, Lilenta, every male within a fifty mile radius will know you're mine." "So

I'll wear her down and if I don't, my scent will. She's already reacting to it, it's just a matter of time. He

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father's house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.

One afternoon I was sitting on a veranda at a party with about six women and the information that was exchanged, commonly called gossip, was enough to run the world for months. Suddenly a hush fell over the women and I looked around and there was a man. The women slid masks over their faces, the subject changed, the man said, "What are all you girls doing out here? Come in and join the party." And the summit conference was over.

We live in a world where whoever sedates us with the most glamour and captures our imaginations with the greatest intensity becomes history.

Early in life I discovered that the way to approach anything was to be introduced by the right person.

Bakersfield, after all, is where Merle Haggard lives; they call it Nashville West.)

In Hollywood, if you can't have a father in the Industry, the least you can have is a great-aunt.)

I've been in fast company, as they call it