Quotes About Influence

The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on.

A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.

The Sex Pistols was a part of my life. Just a small part.

I have to think my success in the VC business was due in no small part to seeing Larry Ellison in action back in the day.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

We think we can play a small part in the evolution of culture.

Small? Nah, I never want to be small. Big people usually push small people around. Why would I want to be small?

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

I don't like to do small things. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to really make an impact.

'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

D.C. is a small town with some big-town features.

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of you.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.

If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

I don't think of myself as a small receiver, but you can't control what somebody says about you. It hasn't held me back - actually, I think I've changed the perception of smaller receivers.

That really sets great directors apart from good directors: their ability to make you feel like you matter, even if your part is much smaller. That's one thing I found with most of the great directors I worked with: They all have that skill. Not everyone takes the time.

Governments should be smaller. In fact, governments and countries in general are less important than we think they are. They take credit for processes they have nothing to do with.

Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.

The Republicans cry for smaller government; however, it seems that at every turn, they work at interfering with the lives of Americans, and we can add food-choice to the list.