Quotes About Influence

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

The Russian people have had literary spokesmen who for more than a generation have fascinated the European audience. The Japanese, on the other hand, have possessed no such national and universally recognized figures as Turgenieff or Tolstoy. They need an interpreter. It

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.

Can we mothers of boys hope to raise thoughtful, supportive, caring helpmates for the female achievers of tomorrow? Or are they, at age 5, or at birth, already too far gone? Where did those guys come upon their obsession with wiggling and wheels and weapons, their passion for He-Man and hockey?

Entertainment is not politically neutral.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

It is easy to blame the cacique, Tahacha said. But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him. It

But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him.

I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I now know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other. "I heard," I said, and turned

know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it. At

From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.

Many a choice is made this way: By pretending it makes itself.

One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.