Quotes About Influence

I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

I like to be supportive and a role model.

I'm really a product of an excellent school system and supportive parents. My high school band director gave me recordings of Louis Armstrong, Kenny Ball, and contemporaries like Nicholas Payton.

My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of... I mean, there's supportive, and then there's just full-on over-hovering.

Having such a supportive family has really shaped the person that I am today.

I couldn't live my life the way I do if my parents weren't supportive.

They were very supportive parents in all my endeavors. They have very different approaches on how they give advice.

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

I'm friends with a lot of influencers, and I'm very supportive. They want to come in and do what I'm doing, and I want to branch out to what they're doing.

I'm happy that my parents were supportive. They never really pressurised me into going ahead with just about anything.

My father was a farm boy who never learned to be holding and supportive.

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

My father is my idol. He supports me all the time. He has given me the way to life.

I want to be looked at as a positive role model and a person who supports the community. I want to help the kids who are in need and need a role model to look up to to show them the way.

Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.

I'm not a person that just supports an issue; I go out and work for it.

There is no question: the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats.

The best advice I give to young people starting out is choose your boss. Regardless of gender, I think it is important to have someone who supports you and lets you take risks without fear of failure.

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.

People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.