Quotes About Influence

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

Anyone who's been under someone's thumb can tell you that power, true power, is never about size or looks.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

The ruggers followed me all the way to the cafeteria. I felt like the Pied Piper, except that the rats probably weren't offering to share protein-rich snacks with him.

Rosa is pushing all the buttons.

That was what magic was: greed. Magic wielders didn't wield magic; it wielded them

Manipular las mentiras es una cosa; dejar que ellas te manipulen a ti, otra muy distinta.

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

The greatest reverence is due the young.

A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

I rarely ask for suggestions, because, when I do, people tend to make them.

Common sense dictates that any voice you hear inside your head must be just you, thinking; so, if you know it's just you and you know you're basically an idiot, what possesses you to do what the stupid voice tells you?

You can lead the people to water, but you can't make them think. Nobody, it seems, can do that.

And belief, like love and sleep, is something you can't do anything about. You can't make it come if you want it, and you can't make it go if you don't.

There was once a king in a far-off land who said, when you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

The more she sticks the knife in, the more I resent it, the less I actually think about what she's been saying. That, of course, presupposes that the object of the exercise from her point of view is to change my mind about what I'm doing, as opposed to beating me to a pulp.