Quotes About Influence

For the Bidens, it's not just about Joe; it's a family racket that includes his son Hunter and his two brothers, James and Frank. All of them have become millionaires by trading on Biden's political name and connections. "In the early 2000s," Politico reports, "Hunter had opened a lobbying practice that landed clients with interests that overlapped with Joe's committee assignments and legislative priorities.

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She could assassinate streets with her eyes

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

Teaching which does not sound as if it is forcing something on you is not true teaching.

when we go someplace, we leave a part of our energy there and we influence more than we can ever imagine.

You'll become a beacon and the light spreads far and wide. Many see it and are attracted to it. And they will flock to you like a moth to a candle. Even though they have not been aware or interested before, now they see they want to be a part of it.

The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.

The United States has destabilized the peace of the whole world.

Les tyrans ont plus souvent suscité la passion et la fascination que la haine.

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

She was the one, I decided, who would guide me into the vortex of the cliche.

If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain.

They know him at molecular level. He lives in them like chains of matter that determine who they are.

A film can be undermined by the person you're seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene by scene, shot by shot.

People eat and sleep in the shadow of what we do

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

What terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought. The danger they represent equals our own failure to be dangerous.' 'And the more clearly we see terror, the less impact we feel from art.

The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour.

Any curly-haired boy can write windswept ballads. You have to crush people's heads. That's the only way to make those fuckers listen.

In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course. He was on again last night. He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.

It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.