Quotes About Influence

It never crossed my mind that I was the white guy rapping. I was best friends with Chamillionaire and whatever he did, I did. If he rapped, I rapped. It was something we did for fun at the track meets or basketball games. Or get in these freestyle cyphers with other schools. Me and Cham rapping together.

Vince McMahon is not a human being. They don't make people like Vince. Vince is Vince. I can't even describe to you what it's like being in a room with Vince McMahon. He is above man. That's the best way I can put it. Like-minded people take over the world, so I've always had a great rapport with him.

It's bigger than the music. You have to have a personality, you have to have a character you have to have a good rapport with people. Those are things that also give you longevity.

Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

Ditko isn't a direct influence, but I really admire his work and how his personality always comes through the drawing. There's a honest and quirky humanity to it, and you always feel the artist behind the comic. That's really rare.

Growing up, I was always enthralled by Ronnie Barker. He made my dad howl with laughter, which always intrigued me, and he had the rare gift of being as good a performer as he was a writer.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

All I'm saying is that I rarely find myself pointing to Sean Penn's love life thinking, 'I want to be like that.'

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

I have been very inspired and influenced by 'The Little Rascals' my entire career.

It isn't that I was born thinking I had to be president. I'm getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don't believe this is a rash decision.