Quotes About Influence

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

Loving Duran Duran has been one of the constants of my life, but I have no idea what they would sound like if the women in my life stopped loving them. I guess I'll never know. I could claim that Duran Duran taught me everything I know about women, but that's not exactly accurate: I learned it from listening to girls talk about Duran Duran.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

I was told about 'Misfits' when we were in prep for 'Chronicle', and I wanted to watch it badly because I'm a fan of that kind of stuff. But I stopped myself because I was very careful about not getting too much contemporary influence.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

If I ever feel like I don't know what to do next, I always think about WWJD, like 'what would J-Lo do,' 'cause J-Lo for me is like the epitome of feminine sensuality, mixed with show stopping beauty.

It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald's or Pizza Hut, then that's what they're going to eat as well.

St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through.

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

You don't even realise how much you need Internet, but it really stops you from doing a lot.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

The Blonde Salad never stops!

I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I have a cousin who is a priest - it's part of my DNA. It's kind of hard to separate me from the church, to try to say where one starts and the other stops.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

You've got to find ways to affect the game, whether it's key stops, key plays, anything.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico.