Quotes About Influence

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

If I'm the MVP of the NFL, and I lose a game and go to a press conference and walk out of it, that's not the example I want to set for people.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

The problem is that right from the beginning, there was this whole pressure that I've had to make it big. I don't know if it's my fault or if someone else created this atmosphere around me, but it's been there.

And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure.

There's peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.

I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.

If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

Everybody's had problems with their family. Everybody's had the pressures of finding the right love or not loving the right person because other people say so.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

If you have $1 billion, you can use the Clinton Foundation as a conduit, and as it goes by, Clinton gives it his prestige.

Television wasn't prestigious.

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.