Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example. ”

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. ”

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer. ”

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. ”

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority. ”

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. ”

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time. ”

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it. ”

I've said no to a lot of things because they didn't make me a leading man. They put me in a category I wasn't interested in. ”

At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron's team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed. ”