Quotes About Influence

It's gotta be hard when you are a newcomer to this kind of thing, this big political scene and you have somebody like Michael Bloomberg come in with hundreds of millions of dollars, dumping it in.

Millions of followers doesn't equal millions of dollars.

Now I put up something, and I have to think, 'Oh, there are millions of people watching, and some of them could be affected by the jokes I make.'

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

A President's unofficial or non-presidential actions do not affect millions of people.

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or something.

For me, my friends, my family, myself, we all grew up as Bucks fans just being in the hometown. I think my friends have converted into Miami Heat fans and I've done the same obviously. We're not too big on Milwaukee anymore.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

Human beings all mimic each other.

My dancing is definitely influenced by African house parties that loosen me up over the years when I was eight years old. Just trying to mimic my Aunties and I kind of learned the flow from there.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

I still think it's mind-blowing when famous people know who I am.

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

We've always been influenced by some of India's greatest minds.

If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.