Quotes About Influence

Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

My relationship with my father was absolutely wonderful. He was the love of my life and pivotal in my life. He was a good, kind man with very strong Buddhist and spiritual beliefs. He could do no wrong and he was my best friend until he died in 2009.

A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.

I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.

I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.

I'm still a fan of the Pixies!

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

It is our job to make a difference and leave the world a better place.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.

I became a human placebo.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

Everybody I interacted with in my life, directly or indirectly, has placed a fingerprint upon my life. That combination has made me who I am.

There's always been product placement in Bond movies.

I get inspired from all different kinds of places - cartoons, comic books, movies and things like that.

All your experiences, the places you go to, the encounters you have with people, and, of course, your cultural trappings all make you who you are, and who you are makes your music.

In a lot of places Jay-Z is considered God, Philly, our hometown being one of them.

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.