Quotes About Influence

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

My superheroes are Meth, Keith Murray, Busta Rhymes, ODB, Xzibit. The superheroes before us were EPMD, Slick Rick, Rakim.

I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.

As athletes, it is our responsibility to be role models. But we are not superheroes.

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief that elites have access to superior information and their interests are interconnected with those of the broader public.

In the E.U., there are always morally superior people who think they have to educate the others.

Great wealth creates an arrogance and, to be quite frank, a god complex in some people that they start feeling like they can do no wrong, they own people, they're superior to other people.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Every son's first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined.

I'm not a superman with a cape, I'm only a basketball player for the Celtics. But if I can make one child smile, I've done my job.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

Growing up, I always liked Catwoman and Superman; they inspired me.

My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

As a kid, when most of my friends were into Superman and Batman, there was only one superhero who held my interest - The Green Hornet.

On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.