Quotes About Influence

I don't know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that's a dangerous thing.

I don't think Madrid would be Madrid without Barcelona and vice versa.

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which led me to archaeology, which got me to the Middle East, which led me to international relations, which launched me on my career.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

Creators are what bring the eyeballs to platforms, and vice versa. Sort of a chicken-and-egg thing, because you can't have creators and no platform.

My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play each like the other. And of course I know a lot of guitar fans who wish I would stop playing the lute and vice versa.

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.

I was a massive Sid Vicious fanatic.

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

Even though the Clintons started mass incarceration, which my brother is a victim of, things are going to change, though. Somebody made them do that.