Quotes About Influence

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up!

My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected me.

Has there ever been a Premier League star splitting opinion more than Mesut Ozil?

I think every actor injects some of his own personality into his parts. There's a great deal of myself in McCoy, a great deal of Bill in Kirk, and a great deal of Leonard in Spock!

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

The fact is that children get spoiled in bad company.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

Shah Rukh Khan is magic, really, honestly. He spoilt me for life. There's nothing you can't talk to him about, and we've had amazing conversations.

I always spoke my mind, and that was a result of the music I listened to growing up.

Jules Bianchi was my racing godfather, and he spoke a lot to Ferrari about me.

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

Abraham Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican War. But once Americans were under fire, people who were on the fence felt obliged to support it.

My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.