Quotes About Influence

I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.

Netanyahu is beholden to the extreme Right.

Netanyahu wants to make me and my party out as small, lame and uninfluential.

I guess with a Netflix show, if you're a kid, it's all dependent on how you're raised and if you have access to it.

No matter how grateful I would be to Netflix, it won't be enough because they have made me who I am today. They are the reason why I have the love that I have.

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

The Nashville Network, that's all I would watch as a kid.

My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.

The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.

I realized that I'm increasingly in a position where I know a network of people, and I'm able to connect more or less anyone.

Women drive network television.

Social networking is a big boon - I agree to it.

Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.

Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

The Internet is neither good nor bad. It's neutral - it becomes for each of us exactly what we bring to it.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Be the chief but never the lord.

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.