Quotes About Influence

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.

I used to copy looks from fashion ads in my mother's 'Cosmopolitan' magazines and steal her eye shadows.

When I was a kid, every street had a band, and we'd steal members from each other.

We are at war, if you will, in the cyber domain now, constantly battling countries, such as Russia or China, who are trying to do everything from steal our technology to influence our elections to put out disinformation about the United States.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

I'm just trying to affect the game in some way whenever I get an opportunity. If that's stealing a base, making a catch, beating out a double play, whatever it may be.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.

I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Everybody steals my lines.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I grew up on Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols, The Jam and somewhere in the middle was The Specials.

I remember watching Wesley Snipes as Blade. I watched Michael Jai White as Spawn. I even watch Shaquille O'Neal as Steel. I felt like seeing a physical representation, a non-cartoon representation, affected me in a much different way.

I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.