Quotes About Influence

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

If Xi Jinping is the world's most powerful man, conventional wisdom puts Vladimir Putin a close second. He's made his own bare-chested virility synonymous with a resurgent Russia.

I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember those songs being synonymous with my childhood, and I was always trying to imitate them on piano.

For sure yeah, Bullet Club is definitely synonymous with pro wrestling as a whole.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

People recognized us together and our names were synonymous. Whenever you heard Barbi Benton, you think of Hugh Hefner. And I loved that. I was his girlfriend and he was my boyfriend.

My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.

Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.

It's one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it's a lot easier if they activate someone who's already here.

There's nothing good about Russia's activity in Syria.

We're seeing Iran now through the Shia militias in Iraq. We're seeing Iran in Syria; we know the Quds Force is in there.

If Russia has the influence in Syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it. We need to see them put an end to these horrific acts. How many more children have to die before Russia cares?

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.