Quotes About Influence

Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

In those projects with Sting and Josh Groban and people like that, I see a very interesting effect: their fans coming to my classical concerts, people who've never been to a classical show at all.

I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.

Sting is a father figure to us all.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

I was into the Police. I dyed my hair white-blond and wanted to be Sting.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

The stock knows that I bought it, and it decides, 'Mohnish is done. Now let's go down.'

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

The E.U. needs Britain more than Britain needs the E.U. The London Stock Exchange is one of the most powerful financial centers in the world. Frankfurt will never replace it.

I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.

It's just not good to put stock in a Hollywood celebrity.

Having a kid motivates you to really take stock of yourself and how much of yourself you want to be reflected back in the actions of your kid.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.

When we were kids, Stoke was massive in Norway.

In my 100th video, I gave a shout-out to the 78 subscribers I had at that point. And I was stoked at that point just to have that many who cared about what I had to say.

Kristi Yamaguchi stole my heart in 1992, and I've never been the same since.

My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

Elvis stole his sideburns from me.

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.

Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.