Quotes About Influence

Parents, you need to watch who you let loose your girls around. If you're so desperate that you want your kids to be stars, and you're going to unleash your daughters to the world, you better watch what you get.

The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

A rock star, according to my definition, is someone who inspires people around him with something he is best at. In my case, it's music, but I wanted audiences to realise there is a rock star waiting to be unleashed within them as well.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Unless your politics speak to the people who you want to support you, they're not going to support you.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.