Quotes About Influence

For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

What happens in one region affects people across the world.

China has been developing, growing in economic strength and its influence in the region. That will continue.

I don't know that Dilla was the father of neo-soul as much as he was highly influential in that time when he was doing what he was doing at his best... Dilla's influence transcended genre and it transcended region.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

I think regional parties are very important if they fulfil regional aspirations.

Regional films have a great impact on the audience, especially because of the proximity of the language with the people.

If there is a bulwark against the BJP juggernaut, it can only be India's regional parties. But they too falter in the face of the Modi factor and their own lack of commitment to a full time, 365 days a year, 24-hour-a-day political life.

My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

If we don't register and don't vote, national leaders will not be aware of our point of view.

I really wish everyone at the age of 18 would register and would vote.

I wouldn't change a thing except I wish we could have got back together. That's my only regret... Being in the Runaways, we were trailblazers, we changed a lot of people's perspectives on what they could or could not do as females.

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.

I really wanted to be a captain of industry. I worked at Unilever as brand manager for Lynx after university. While I don't regret leaving, I wish I still had a bit of power.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.