Quotes About Influence

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer.

In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

I've loved George Michael for as long as I can remember. He was an absolute inspiration. Always ahead of his time.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.