Quotes About Influence

What's different with Cambridge Analytica and more broadly with social media is that you are the target. People want to harvest your information in as granular a way as possible in order to, like, create a picture, a complete picture of who you are, ultimately to either sell you things or make you believe things.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.

I want to ultimately own the world.

I get to listen and enjoy music that is partially mine. Maybe influenced and guided. I created some simple outlines, but ultimately, I'm hearing a derivative work.

But ultimately, at the end of the day, people want leaders who they respect and who they believe in and who can get things done.

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

It's always important to stay in contact with the fans, because ultimately, if they weren't there, I wouldn't be here. It's very, very important to spread the love.

The fact that people are able to be positively impacted by any of my work is really just a blessing. And ultimately, that's what I want to do.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.

I guess whatever the director's energy is is kind of contagious on set, because, um, you know, it's a hierarchy, and we're all kind of looking to the director for guidance.

I think it's a star-making turn for Audrey Tautou. I can't imagine anyone else playing that role. Um, to me, is she Amelie, for better or for worse.

I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me... um... a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?