Quotes About Influence

In some respects I'm quite easily led, so I have to make sure I've got my own space, and that I feel comfortable in my working environment. It's very important for me to work with the right collaborators, as I can easily get led into a corner where I'm not comfortable.

Before, when going to youth camps, the line for QBs would be around the corner. Now, kids want to be either QBs or WRs. Being a WR is popular, it's cool.

We can no longer allow special corporate interests to shape our political and financial decisions, while our citizens and communities cry for real climate action.

Whether it's a church or politics or a corporation or a college or anywhere, leadership matters.

I'm not backed by the super PACs and the big corporations.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.

I like the idea of getting money from corporations to do funny bits as long as they don't meddle.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

To say that the captain makes the team lose or win is not correct.

There's a direct correlation between media and how we feel about our bodies.

Of all the people I've ever met that I got a bit tongue-tied around was Chris Moyles. And it was just down the corridor at Radio X. I grew up listening to him, in the car on the way to school, and that voice, you feel like you wake up with him.

Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.

Boxing is systemically corrupt.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

People feel like city government is corrupt. They feel like it doesn't work unless you have clout.

Average Americans need to stop reading and watching the corrupt corporate media. They should immediately stop subscribing to them, stop advertising with them, and stop paying attention to them.

I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.