Quotes About Influence

Any time the president talks, you listen.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

Baseball is very big at the present time. This makes me think baseball will live longer than Casey Stengel or anybody else.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

That just sends the wrong message to everybody. [Donald Trump] should have the least amount of air time.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.