Quotes About Influence

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

It's very important to me to give something back - to pass on my know-how, to give all the lessons I learned onto the next generation so they don't make the same mistakes.

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.

'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

As a kid, I always loved Mel Brooks' stuff - 'The 2,000 Year Old Man' record was something my dad put me onto.

It's much easier to get your material out to the public now than it was in 1988, when you basically had to get onto cable to have a joke heard across the country. Now all you need is an iPhone, and you can get your joke heard across the country.

I am called a legend, and people see me as one, but because of that, I don't think I should have to hide at home and only go on holidays, drink champagne, and watch TV. I am somebody that wants to impact onto people's lives.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I'm listening to, what I'm writing, how I'm feeling.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.

I'd like to be the person who changes things, or at least open doors for others.

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

Open Society Foundations is essentially another name for George Soros, who is a committed leftist, one-world-government ideologue.

You need somebody to open your eyes, to tell you there's things that you can do, and I had that person in Brian Marwood. I think if I'm where I am today, it's because of him.

Miley is one of my best friends, and she helps with some of that transitional stuff - trying to escape your childhood. She's super open-minded, and I'm working on becoming more like that.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.