Quotes About Influence

In the very beginning, I kind of had this hip-hop, cut-and-paste approach to music. The first record, especially, was from looking at people like DJ Shadow and A Tribe Called Quest, and I think a phase that a lot of people go through when they start sampling is to go out and stamp on twigs and try to record that kind of stuff.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that's the ideal guy when you're 13, by the time you're 25, you're going to have had some seriously bad relationships.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

If you're a website and you want to get attention, you can Hiterlize anything.

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

America has everything, why should they want us.

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.