Kevin Young Quotes

The first rule of influence is that there isn't any. The second rule of influence is that it is everywhere.

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• It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Values

• I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • World
  • Politics
  • Start

• I was raised doing martial arts.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Doing
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• Health food makes me sick.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Health
  • Sick

• What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • God
  • Law
  • Worry

• The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Dreams

• I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Know
  • Star
  • Cards

• The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Film
  • First
  • Two

• If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • True
  • You
  • Yourself

• Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Nature
  • Revolutionary

• I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Environment
  • Step

• To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Negative
  • Critics

• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Important
  • Want

• There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • May
  • Soul

• It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

  

  David Gest
  • Real

• The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Reading

• I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did 'Hair.' Then I had a real quiet time, not having work, and it was a time of not only self-discovery of me as a person, but also what I wanted as an artist and actor.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend's exes, for example, it's really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing.

  

  Jillian Rose Reed
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Moral

• The first rule of influence is that there isn't any. The second rule of influence is that it is everywhere.

  

  Kevin Young