Quotes About Influence

I always look at Akon as inspiration, and the fact that at one point Lady Gaga was signed to Konvict Muzik.

When you are signed to a major label, everyone wants to have a say in who you are and what you are doing.

Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.

I don't know if people know this, but I kind of got Fear Factory signed with Roadrunner. I really bugged Monte Conner back in the day when I heard the demo that had 'Big God' on it.

I already knew, of course, about the juggernaut that is Shonda Rhimes and the cultural significance of her.

If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are almost unrivaled.

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

I found, in the Senate, you can have significant impact whether you're in the minority party or the majority party, and a lot of it goes back to... that you really have to be able to count to 60.

Many models I knew had come from broken families. That makes a significant difference in the way you handle yourself and the choices you make.

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.

It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.

We only have one president and one secretary of state, but our founding fathers very clearly insisted that Congress play a significant role in foreign policy.

Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

We are not a minor power in the Middle East; we are a significant player.

Though there are some debatable exceptions, sanctions rarely play a significant role in dislodging or constraining the behavior of despicable regimes.

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.

State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition and anyone who thinks differently from the ruling party.

When you sign up to become something, you're signing up to become something larger than yourself. Represent something more than yourself.

'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them.