Quotes About Influence

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother.

We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want to bring that down.

I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

Every time I come with an album I try to do something different and obviously my life has an influence on how I feel and the type of message I want to give with the music.

There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?

The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.

Hillary Clinton's raising the money from the people she wants to control.

I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.You know why? I didn't want to, but he sent me his book with his autograph.