Quotes About Influence

A small number of people can make a lot of noise.

When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.

You can take 200 people in a crowd of 10,000 and if they choose to be heard, they sound very loud. I'm talking fans scattered around the arena - if they're chanting the same thing, 200 people can make a lot of noise.

When you let outside noise into your head, you start thinking or believing whatever the hell you read or see.

I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.

I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren't necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don't think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn't for this group.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and nature shows, and our own life experiences.

Instagram is a 24-hour online magazine. You can see everything you like non-stop, and it has certainly had an effect on the makeup industry.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.

I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

The facts are, China's aspirations are not good for us, nor our families.

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.