Quotes About Influence

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He's creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it's a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.

You can be dominant without the ball by trying to move the opposition where you want them to go.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth party.

Opposition fans try to get under my skin by singing, 'You'll never be your father' - and they are quite right, I never will be as good as him. But I would still love to make a name for myself, aim to play at the highest level possible, and prove that sons who follow their dads into the same business need not walk in their shadows.

The real legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee lies in the politics of opposition. The politics of opposition is the politics of dissent. From 1957 to 1996, he dedicated his life to exactly that.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I love Oprah to death.