Quotes About Influence

I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."

I respect them [Amar Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony or Dwyane Wade], but would I dress like them? No.

I respect the fact that Donald Trump always listens. It's how he was in business. It's how he is as president.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career.

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

If you're so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.

It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.

Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I'm doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.

Meryl Sawyer, Half Moon Bay