Quotes About Influence

You can't have the Allman Brothers without Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman. Those are just irreplaceable spirits.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

My true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

'True Detective' did change my career.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

You know, 'Top Gun' was the movie I saw in high school that made me want to be a filmmaker. I remember very specifically coming out of the Century 21 Theater in Colorado from seeing it, and my friend saying, 'What did you think of the movie?' And I said, 'I think I know what I want to do for a living.' That's a true story.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

I feel in today's time, you are truly successful if a meme is based on you.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

I'm here to make an impact on the kids who truly care.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I've always really respected Mark Richt. I think he's a great man, first of all, and I think he's a great coach and a guy that truly cares about the players and always has.