Quotes About Influence

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.

We are the most visited city in the world - and they're not coming for the weather. Culture is one of things that's made London hugely successful.

My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It comes from being a child and listening to the radio every day of my life.

When I was in Year 10 I saw a girl on 'X Factor' with a really great, huge afro, so I went to the hairdresser's to get a weave and achieve the same look. She somehow convinced me to get colored extensions that were way too short, so I ended up looking like 'Annie.'

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

And as soon as the Internet hit and people started having their own web sites, I realized that people who did what I did, our positions were being threatened because, as journalists, we were the conduits between the celebrities and the public.

I was a kid of the '90s, so I was always inspired by Gwen Stefani, especially the 'Spider Web' video.

If I want to shoot my daily look, I just put it on Instagram - not on the Web site.

For me, social media isn't just about connecting with friends and sharing photos; it's a bigger, more tangled web that's led me to jobs working in television, speaking gigs around the country, and it's even helped me land my first book deal!

Don't underestimate the power of the Web.

I'm a huge believer in power of women on the web.

The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.