Quotes About Influence

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.