Quotes About Influence

I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.

I loved Cary Grant. I got to know him and Audrey Hepburn. Here were these people I always liked and admired, and they were coming to my house.

I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

People come up to me and pay their respects by telling me how I was a big part of their childhood. I do not take that for granted, not for one second.

The cold grasp of corruption shackles the District of Columbia.

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

I cannot say that the PAP has done me wrong or something. I think I'm quite grateful to the PAP.

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

It's gratifying when younger women come up and say, 'I went to law school because of you.' My heart swells; then it's like, wait, are you glad, or do you blame me?

I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I'm saying?

I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

I'm always inspired by all of my friends. I aspire to make clothes that my friends would want to wear, that they would gravitate towards anyway.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.

That's how things work: you be who you are, and then people like you. They gravitate.