Quotes About Influence

She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?

We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.

We need leaders who are willing to stand up, drive the debate, and commit our fellow citizens to action.

See, 'Bad and Boujee' was really a ladies' record. It made all of them want to stand up a little more and feel a little better about themselves.

I think you have to be a leader to be a coach. I think you have to be somebody who is willing to stand up even when it's hard.

As sportspeople, we have a power we don't even know. If we get together and talk, things change. If we stand up, people stand up with us.

If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I'm very happy to do so.

Ellen DeGeneres is a huge influence in my life. She's one of the reasons why I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I was a big fan of her stand-up before she even came out of the closet.

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.

'When Harry Met Sally' will endure. It will be the standard rom-com that others will improvise on for years to come.

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.

I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set a standard of excellence. I listen to them not for what they are doing, but to study where they are coming from because, for me, jazz is life experience.

When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live... You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

My husband didn't want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty.