Quotes About Influence

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

When I hear about a player losing his money, I'll rarely, if ever, point a finger at the player because I know how difficult it is. It's not always, 'Look at this idiot who got paid all these millions of dollars and lost it all.' It may be more like, 'This naive kid with a million things going on in his life put his faith in the wrong people.'

I look up so much to those movies, 'Airplane!' and 'Naked Gun.' I think that stuff is so funny. I grew up just loving all that stuff and sort of idolizing Leslie Nielsen.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.

My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

The name Zahra was to have been lman's own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me.

I was named Rohan from the great West Indian cricketer Rohan Kanhai.

People named their kids after me!

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.

My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old.

Martin Luther King didn't know he was going to have a day named after him; Muhammad Ali didn't know he was going to be the people's champion. He was doing what he was doing because it was right.

My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.

My mother named me for Marty Robbins.

I got a buddy named Brandon, who I boxed with for a long time, and I always think about him, or my daughter. If they look at something I've done, or they've seen me in the world and they don't recognize me, then I've done something wrong.

I think being named role models kind of happened just naturally, we never really asked for it. Which is lovely, I love the fact that girls look up to us and we empower people and inspire them.

I was named after a Muslim.

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn't even put a record out yet.

I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.