Quotes About Influence

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

In France, history is paralyzing.

I think I'm a face of a franchise. I can make an impact.

Being the face of the franchise, everyone is watching you. You have to be able to lead other men. It's a lot of responsibility.

I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.

I do think your environment really plays into how you create. I lived in San Francisco for a bit, and I felt like I lived in the Matrix - so my music had that paranoid-of-the-outside sound to it.

I come from a school of artists, the Mission School in San Francisco, and there are a lot of artists I look up to.

I got to see The Beatles a couple of times. In fact, I saw their last performance ever in San Francisco. The Beatles were massive to me - I learned so much from them.

I want to add something to a club, something which people can say: 'That's the hand of Frank De Boer.'

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.

My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.

My dad was my manager when I was young, but as a professional, Frank Rijkaard.

I had many good managers: Wim Jansen, Martin O'Neill, Frank Rijkaard, and Alex Ferguson, to name just a few.

The way I see it, before I can sell an audience Frank Sr, I have to sell them Frank Jr first.

Frank Farian and me are the sound of Boney M.

I try very hard to live my life in an exemplary way, which is, you know, 'Shine bright like Frankie.'

To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.

I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

Aretha Franklin, first and foremost... That's my top girl there.