Quotes About Influence

Radio, in a way, is preaching.

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

I don't ever preach to people.

'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.

Rap is good for politics because when you make a rap record, you put good music on a track and people listen to you. It's easier than trying to preach.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I cannot accept concepts such as Gulenism or Gulenist. I was only a writer and an official preacher among people. I can have no direct influence on any person or activity. It is inconceivable that I can exert pressure on anybody.

Every guy I touch, it's the same result. When I land, it's like seeing one of those preachers on TV. When I touch them, they fall out.

I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.

Me with diabetes, when I talk about it, it lifts people up. When I talk about how people need to take their insulin shots, it make people go take their shots. My words is like a damn preacher.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.

Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.

We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'

I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.

The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.

I certainly don't support billionaires bankrupting media organizations. Even if you don't like the people involved, that sets a dangerous precedent.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

Literature precedes genre.

John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.

Girls' Generation was an important and precious time for me.