Quotes About Influence

We can all learn something from people we admire.

I admire Obama.

We can all look to our friends, family, and those we admire for inspiration.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good.

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

She's an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

I admire Trump for his accomplishments.

When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.

I'm my own person and my own player. Not that I don't admire other players and try and do similar things.

I admire many actors, including Amitabh Bacchhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Irfan Khan, and many more.

I always admired Graeme Souness.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

I have always admired Mr. Naseeruddin Shah, Mr. Anupam Kher, the late Om Puri ji, and Amitabh Bachchan.

I admired Stephen Fleming.

I've always admired actors such as Tabu, Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi and I'd like to do the kind of roles that they have done.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

I have a thing about working with young people. I adore them.

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

I absolutely adore Nigel Slater.

There's kids out there that like me, so why aren't I taking the time to give back to them? If they adore me or they look up to me, just to whatever extent, I've got to show them that I care about them as well.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

A boy I adored when I was 19 gave me the 'Emigrante' album by Orishas. Definitely not my normal taste, but I still kind of love it.