Quotes About Influence

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence.

What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

I'm usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, 'Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It's amazing,' I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for 'Stranger Things,' I couldn't resist. I had to watch it.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane. And that's where I would look at them.

Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.

There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

I'll never forget where I came from. It's always on my mind.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.