Quotes About Influence

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

The flow that I use, I really developed my rap style in the mid '80s based on Grandmaster Caz from the Cold Crush Brothers, from listening to him. That's like really who I pretty much patterned my style from and I just really took it to another level once I had the opportunity to get out amongst the world myself.

We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.

We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.

I lit up the Middle East when I lit up the world in the 1990s and gave people here something to be proud of.

America is a force for good in the Middle East.

I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross training and weight training in every sport and from middle school kids to senior citizens.

In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.

In middle school, I saw Chris Brown live, and I thought, 'I can do that.' And these girls are screaming for him.

My grandmother really inspires me. I lived with her until halfway through middle school, since both my parents worked a lot.

Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.

The guys who play in midfield and up front are the ones who decide games.

Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.

I was my high school football team's captain, not because I was the guy who scored the most touchdowns, but the guy who was in the midst of every play.

Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

Midwest elections have consequences.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

The things that I leave creatively are going to stay here long past me. That's the reason why the album is called '4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time.'

No matter where you live in the world, the contribution that Chinese migration has had on food culture is undeniable.

Mike Patton and Dave Lombardo - those guys are a good, heavy influence.