Quotes About Influence

It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

I think you can see a clear link between certain kinds of Christian nationalism and support for Trump. Then, I also think that Trump is benefiting from the weakening of religious participation. He's winning evangelicals who aren't in church.

Elections have been free and fair with full participation of the people, reinforcing that the ballot is mightier than the bullet.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

I like clothes. I like fashion, particularly men's fashion. Both my father and my grandmother on my mother's side were tailors, so I think it's in my blood.

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.

We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.

'Man In The Mirror' by Michael Jackson - I used to have my very first dance parties with my kids to this song when they were little, even carried them around to it. It just makes you want to be a better person and be inspired.

When you go to a political convention, the best place to spend time is at the numerous parties put on by lobbyists. And you don't go for food. You go to beg for money.