Quotes About Influence

Politics can cloud objectivity.

Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

People can just put their cash away and continue to make money and never give back because they just do not care, but I immediately felt obligated to use my influence for good things.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

We also have to think as fighters, celebrities - whatever you want to call us - that we have an obligation to point out stuff that's just completely wrong.

I never sat down and said, 'Now I must make a contribution, that one person can make a difference.' But I felt I was in a position where I could contribute. I never thought of it in the light of history or my brothers. I just felt I had an obligation.

Sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.

When you're in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced to do anything.

I couldn't live without Radio 1. They condemned me to oblivion, but they're what I grew up with.

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

I don't like to appoint myself to nothing, knowing I'm no better than anybody else. But it always makes me feel good to know I try to do the best I can, and those who might observe say, 'Hey, I can take a little something from that person.'

Anil Sethi told me to get into journalism. The thought got into my head, that I could see things, write about them. I used to, anyhow, roam around, observe and describe things I saw.