Quotes About Influence

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.

I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

People just want to know that they matter.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

There are some people whom I esteem and want their opinion first, but that's my way. It is difficult for me to delegate. In the end, I do have two or three people on my team who I listen to.

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

Sheep don't need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

A leader leads by example not by force.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.