Quotes About Influence

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

People automatically assume that if I get anywhere it's because of my association with X, Y or Z, or because I'm pretty.

I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be.

You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

The issues that most impact the average person are made at the local level.

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.

Before Lita, women weren't doing moonsaults, hurricanrana, and other high-flying maneuvers. I think she really changed the game in the women's division.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

In my own life, my parents divorced when I was young. I lived with my dad, not with my mum, after they got divorced. And it's been part of my life.

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influence... Never have I gone around asking people, 'Do you know who I am...' Even if it's to cut a line at the airport.

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?

The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.

When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

I just want to be dominant.

When you have a dominant big man, that changes the aspects of the game.

I can dominate a game at any point.

It doesn't have to be stats all the time. Go dominate the game with force.

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

During the 1990s I was dominating everything. People were saying they were beaten before we got on to the stage.