Quotes About Influence

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play.

I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool.'

I think it is important for young people to see other young people on television doing something positive with their life, making positive changes and growing. I don't think there is enough of that on TV. I mean, we've got 'Jersey Shore,' and I don't know what that teaches young kids.

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's pretty regular. But it was great to give the gift of music to people, seeing them learn. It's great to influence young people in a creative way.

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.

I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town in France. Hip hop has made a huge impact on urban culture. Yet many brands still don't speak to young people in a tone and manner that's representative of them.

If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting to get involved in the theatre - it's brilliant.

When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.