Unwanted Influence Quotes

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

My head was - I wasn't screwed up, but I feel like I was shifted away from my family a lot with this basketball stuff. You have people coming around you saying they are family or whatever. They try to keep you away from your real family. That kind of got me.

I now understand that foreigners who interfere in our internal affairs will bring us nothing but harm

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

The other day I went to a movie with some friends, and they were like, 'Let's look it up on the Internet and see what people are saying,' and I was like, 'Man, that's messed up.'

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

I am an incorrigible eavesdropper, so I am very much influenced by what I hear.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.

You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money.

I'll read tweets that people will tweet at me from time to time, but I try not to read too much about it, because you just never know what's going to end up influencing you.

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.