Quotes About Influence

When I was in South Korea, the books that I read about Americans were actually Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. If this country actually oppresses people and enslaves the people, how are those two women billionaires?

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

I remember me and my brother would watch 'Beavis and Butthead' or 'South Park,' but we'd be all secret about it because we didn't want our dad to know. And then before I know it, I'm in fourth grade and me, my brother, and my dad are watching 'South Park' together.

Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.'

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically.

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

Georgia Southern was such a big part of me getting my start.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow - I started learning melodies.

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

Growing up black in America, and with Southern roots in my family, I was informed in my own life.

Miami has grown into one of the biggest Southern places next to Atlanta when it comes down to music. It just grew out of nowhere.

My personality, my creativity, my overall aesthetic, everything is so Southern.

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.