Quotes About Influence

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

I have to have the mindset of Vito Corleone in everything I do.

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

I am a Bruce Lee fan. I may be my fans' hero, but even heroes have their heroes. And mine is Bruce Lee.

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.

The first CD I bought was Brandy and Monica's 'The Boy Is Mine.'

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown's work.

I am not the governor, administrator or chief minister, who can issue instructions to bring about changes. I can only advise.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

The most influential people in my life are deceased. These include my parents, George Dunne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my minister in college.

From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India's PM, Modi has made an indelible mark in the annals of our history.

People still talk about 'Yes, Minister.' Americans, too; they love it. It was a happy period for me and it did change my life.

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.

Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King's daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn't bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.

My work in television is part of my ministry. My ministry is not religious at all - it's part of my life purpose of empowering women.

I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.

I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.