Quotes About Influence

Our government is for the people, by the people - and no one can orchestrate a hostile takeover. We, the people, control our destiny.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I'm a person that takes on situations from passion. I get passionate about things, and I try to help.

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.

The chairman is the man who manages everything and, in the end, takes all the decisions. Always, for the fans, it's important to hear him.

It takes more than a hashtag to change the world.

I see musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris as more than just musical icons: they are planets, with a gravitational pull - from how they flip their hair just-so when they bow, right down to their hearty backstage banter. It takes decades to learn the innuendos of being gracious and genuine all at once.

If you're intimate with a mind as powerful as that of Ellen Willis, it takes you a long time to separate yourself from her ideas. She had an extremely powerful mind.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

We have spent so many years looking at images of another beauty ideal and so many years taking in magazine covers and films that represent a beauty standard that we'll never meet. People don't realize that there are makeup artists and hairstylists behind the scenes - even in something as simple as a 'candid' Instagram photo.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.

Putin operates like a super PAC, taking advantage of opportunities for negative campaigning. The purpose is to show that the U.S. has no moral authority.

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

I think you make impacts by taking risks.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.