Carly Simon Quotes

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

I'd like to be the person who changes things, or at least open doors for others.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

There is nothing like the quiet power of example.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it's such a great soap box.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

I really saw my mom advocate on my behalf and really say, 'Hey, you're good enough.' It was from her that I learned that just because something hasn't been done before, it doesn't mean it can't be done now. You have to speak up, and you've got to assert yourself because it takes somebody to be the first one to make it happen.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

My long-term ambition is to be an agent of change.