Quotes About Influence

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.

We got rich lawyers... The best lawyers on the planet.

Meghan Markle is one of the loveliest human beings on the planet, in the world.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

I think politics is really important to our lives. At its best and highest form, it can make the biggest difference in the world and at its worst, it is the worst skullduggery on planet Earth.

I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

Roja,' 'Bombay' and 'Dil Se' weren't planned as political films. It was a phase India was going through and these things affected me and found their way into my work.

People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

We see so much violence in films, whether it is Bollywood or south films. People are shown blowing up each other onscreen. It's like a seed that is planted and you keep feeding it with small doses. It's cancerous and does affect society.

In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea of social sculpture.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.