Quotes About Influence

I would say that SpongeBob, at his core, is this optimistic, loving best friend. Getting to play him every day has sort of rubbed off on me and improved my life.

I'm not optimistic for my country. I don't see how we're ever going to project our influence and our standing and our power outside the E.U. Britain's voice is going to diminish, I'm afraid.

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

You can't force people to change. You can only give them the option.

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.

If you lease a part of your soul in a campaign, Washington, D.C., and the establishment... will think they have an option to buy.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that.

Like many women, my first lip color belonged to my mum. It was bright orange and very fashionable at the time.

'A Clockwork Orange' was filmed near where I grew up, and 'Children of Men.'

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Modi is a great orator.

In oratory the will must predominate.

There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to the L.A. Philharmonic and feel that Giulini was there.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

Even leaving aside its military bases, America's influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.