Quotes About Influence

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

I watched a lot of animes, especially 'Dragon Ball Z,' which was my bible from the time I was 7 till I was 15.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face - people don't lack goals, passion, grit, or drive - they lack leadership!

Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.

Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure.

It is extremely empowering when you are making fundamental and critical decisions on different levels of production, till the final showcase on the screen.

I think that the level playing field is so unlevel - it is tilted so much in favor of Chinese companies - that it's time for the United States to do a little bit more, see.

My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.

Probably the first artist who really captured me was Tim McGraw. His songs 'Don't Take the Girl' and 'Indian Outlaw' were fun, and he was different than a lot of artists.