I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Change alone is unchanging.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.