Quotes About Influence

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

Barack Obama wants to be the power figure, he wants to be the face of the Democrat Party going forward.

[Donald] Trump doesn't give up and let [the Democrats] have what they want. But people around Trump and some others in the world of politics do.

The time is going to come when [people] are going to really regret this, and they're gonna want to be within [Donald] Trump's orb at some point, 'cause this country's gonna take off.

This country's gonna be rocking, this country's gonna be cooking, this country's gonna be sizzling, and everybody is going to want to be close to [Donald] Trump.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

I feel more important to just encourage people to get involved, one way or another. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.