Quotes About Influence

The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

Who'd have thought that living life like a dime store floozy throughout your formative years could negatively affect your decision-making ability or long-term, future relationships?

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

When you are part of a group for seven years, you leave something - I hope - beautiful inside each of your former team-mates.

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

Those of us that were raised in Tijuana have so much access to San Diego. I was crossing the border every day when I was a kid, and that back and forth has a huge influence on the cuisine. So the U.S. is coming down to Tijuana, Tijuana is going to San Diego. There's this great blending, a great exchange.

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell - though I don't think I've ever made that abundantly clear to him.

I wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for the 'Fortnite' Community.

Fortunately or unfortunately, 'Baahubali' has become a benchmark for all historical-costume dramas.

I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

Foster the People wouldn't exist without Mophonics.