Quotes About Influence

Remember, the West's rock or pop was created for their languages, not ours.

Comparing Bollywood and Hollywood is like comparing America's market, roads and economy to ours.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

There's a lot of people out here who have the same dreams I had when I was their age that are really talented, and a lot of kids look up to us and really are watching every move that we do. For us it inspires us to be great.

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

A lot of people don't want to vote because they believe the negatives rather than the positives about the outcome of their decisions about the sheriff or councilman or the board of education in their community.

I know that my voice and my vote matter and that I can help shape the outcome of events that I care deeply about.

You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.

One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

My dad had me in little baseball outfits and bats in the crib.

You just gotta hang around people that are really outgoing, and you'll end up, before you know it, you'll be an outgoing person.