Quotes About Influence

I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture.

MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you engage with it; you go on the David Letterman show, and you do the interviews, and that's how you get out there.

When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.

Jazz doesn't have much to do with how I write songs, but I am a big fan. My favorites are Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and Mose Allison.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.

I love Jessica Chastain. I love her; she's amazing, and she's such a good actress, and she's been nominated for Oscars, and she's just a big role model to me. I love her.

When we're actually modeling good behavior, and when we get results, other countries are more likely to follow our lead.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Experience in other countries shows how big money, rather than the best political candidate, can influence politics.

I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk music.

I had a lot of Pokemon Pikachu t-shirts on court and hand-me-downs from other kids.

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

My life has definitely changed since 'Modern Family.' The show has made me more responsible, I really want to be a good role model for all kids so I have to think about what I say and do and how it looks to other kids!

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.