Quotes About Influence

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw the influence and saw what it's all about. This goes a long time.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

History happens one person at a time.

It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.