Quotes About Influence

We love the New York hardcore bands like Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All - the whole thing.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

I was a great fan of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy; they always inspired me.

While shooting for 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna,' I just had to watch Dev sahab and I would give my best.

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.

I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.

If I look smart and feel confident, other people's bigoted assumptions have less power to harm me.

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.

I used to write three- and four-part harmonies for my YWCA club in high school. We used to win all the song contests. But people would say, 'Look who her father is. He probably did the whole thing.'

Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.

I had a teacher at school who told me to take up the harp.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

Trump has the opportunity to be the president who, like Harry Truman, redirected U.S. foreign policy for a generation.

I don't want to hear that Harry Belafonte is out there. It forces me not to see the audience as an anonymous mass.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Not to be harsh, but why do we care so much about celebrity acceptance of Christian beliefs?

I was actually a big Owen Hart fan, but I wasn't a Bret Hart fan at all growing up.