Quotes About Influence

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.

Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.

I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

I have a joyful life, and I attribute that to both of my parents.

One of the great joys of my life post-'Friends' has been being approached by Asian women who have told me how much it meant to see an Asian face on their TV screen when they were growing up.

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

Judaism is in all my books.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

Your family, your best friend those are the opinions you should take to heart. All the other opinions and judgements, you have to let come in one ear and go out the other.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

I can't control what the judges give me.

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.