Quotes About Influence

The future belongs to crowds.

Don't forget, Stephen Stills and I had a band in Gainesville called the Continentals when we were 15. And, of course, you had Lynyrd Skynyrd in Jacksonville.

Don't do acid, kids.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Sometimes the distinction between theft and homage is murky.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership and you're part of that leadership.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

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He who speaks least has the most power.

Their only weapon is shame, if the powerful can even feel it.

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation.

People don't run the cartel; the cartel runs people.

the only redemption for having a bad father is being a good one.

The mob guys know it. They know that you bribe a politician only once. After that, you blackmail him.

Everything is political," O'Brien says. "Especially these days.

The cartel has bought the White House. We've crossed the border now.

Él que menos habla es el más chingón. He who speaks least has the most power.

We rule over gangs—Crips and Bloods and Trinitarios and Latin Lords. Dominicans Don't Play, Broad Day Shooters, Gun Clappin' Goonies, Goons on Deck (seems to be a theme), From Da Zoo, Money Stackin' High, Mac Baller Brims. Folk Nation, Insane Gangster Crips, Addicted to Cash, Hot Boys, Get Money Boys.

The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood.

What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won?

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

...as one reads more and more and more you get more fathers in your hierarchy of fathers. And then, after summoning twenty or thirty fathers, perhaps you are born, or perhaps you are not born.