Quotes About Influence

We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.

Before starring in 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I must have watched only 20-odd movies, out of which eight were part of the 'Harry Potter' series.

My mum was into pottery and embroidery, very artistic, and she knew some people from the college, which I think was how I got into it. My dad, who was a head-hunter, was also an incredible artist, and when he was very young, he was a really good cartoonist.

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

My dad was a big man - six-foot-seven and 300 pounds - and very strong.

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things that makes me want to be a writer is to pour my heart into something and hope that I can affect someone in that same way.

I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever.

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is paradoxical.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?