Quotes About Influence

Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

Alexander Nix has no interest in the Republicans or Democrats winning or losing.

When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'

I'm able to impact people's lives by the way I play, but there's so much more things I can do so there is no limit to what I can do.

I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.

The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.

Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.

In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that. People were always curious about what I had to say.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

Of course people are going to compare me to my father, and there's no problem with that. At the end of the day, I'm going to have to live with that for the rest of my life, whether I like it or not.

I wanted never to disappoint my father. His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life

A veces, nuestro futuro viene impuesto por quienes somos, y no por lo que queremos.

On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one perhaps bc I never wanted to disappoint my father. His voice even now follows me now on this longest of rides this thing called life.

Los buenos profesores no tiene precio. Te inspiran, te entretienen y acabas aprendiendo más de lo que esperabas...

and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.

Why isn't the pioneer of perforation chiseled into the façades of libraries, along with Locke, Franklin, and the standard bunch of French Encyclopedists?

have seen billionaires, including convicted criminals, extract admissions of guilt from British newspapers too poor or too frightened to fight, and use them to convince journalists and politicians around the world that legitimate criticisms of their actions were groundless.

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?- Rob