Quotes about Influence

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.