Quotes About Influence

We can get rid of all the plastic bags and plastic straws in the world - and we need to - but nothing is going to get better until we can make the people at the top see that there are changes to be made.

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

I don't write Plastic Ono Band stuff, though I love that record.

What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one.

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

It's incredible to be able to make an impact and use the platform that we have in the right way.

With my platform, anyway, I want to try and do good things and want to help people.

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.

For me, it has always been about using my platform to help others.

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where to go to really hear it. Brainfeeder gives me a platform to put out people like Kamasi Washington or Austin Peralta.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

I'm the most fortunate woman in the world - I have a platform, which doesn't just reach 10 people.

Modelling is an incredible platform.

Any time you have a platform or any influence, it's really important to use and make the most of it.

I've been blessed with a platform and a voice, and I owe it to myself and my family and our people to use it responsibly.

I always said that if I had the platform and the opportunity to share my story and make it easier for others, I would - so that, in a way, I can be the role model that I was looking for as a kid.

I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.