Quotes About Influence

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are.

Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

As a seven-year-old, I had definite opinions on Ronald Reagan.

I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.

Here's one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement. After Buckley, there was Ronald Reagan.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

Politics changes music most of the time. Ronald Reagan - you can kind of say that he made hip-hop what it was by the embargoes that he set. Certain things that he did created N.W.A in a way. Politics has always done that.

Ronald Reagan was very successful.

The real election meddling is by Facebook and Google and others that are shadow-banning people.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I was very sheltered growing up, so the only real beauty exposure I had was my mom. And still, to this day, she is my number 1 beauty icon.

I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal.

I've liked Kiss from when I was three years old. I've seen them, the real deal, with all the original members when they came back in '96 and all that, and that's fine.

In Bollywood, we are told exactly what to do and how to do it and not to counter things by saying there's a better way. We make our actors feel important by paying them more. But the real deal is when you let the actors take some decisions on the sets.

Facebook was just John the Baptist. Twitter is the real deal.

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

I am grateful for my father's legacy. I am grateful to have found out who my real friends are. I am grateful for God's guidance.

My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.

I see my real job now as - never mind 'The Office,' 'Extras,' film career, Emmys - I want everyone in the world to know who Karl Pilkington is.