Quotes About Influence

I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.

I wouldn't say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren't really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear - and driving to work in a Ferrari.

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

You know, in Russia we say there are three things you can't choose: your parents, your gender and your president.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.

I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.

As far as drummers are concerned, when I was a child growing up I was really attracted to artists like Gene Kupra and Louis Bellson and Buddy Rich; a lot of the drummers that played in the popular big bands of the '40s. I would listen to their records.

I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

As Bob Marley says, 'We must carry on.' So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.