Quotes About Influence

It is the people of Kerala and their expectations that have made me what I am today.

I think women have the opportunity to change the landscape and change the direction of America.

I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world.

You change the landscape in Hollywood with action, not words.

I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.

Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother.

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

I do social media largely for work because I want to be a part of different activities. In India, that's how you make money, so I do it as my job.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

We experimented with stuff that some might find crazy, but we wanted to widen and make the spectrums of influence much larger, because house and electronic music is about freedom.

When you think about it, girls and women are the largest market in the world.

Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'

Most of us got jobs right after 'The Larry Sanders Show' because of 'The Larry Sanders Show.' I know that for a fact for myself.

It's funny because, growing up, I found inspiration from watching Steffi Graf and Amanda Coetzer, a South African who was in the top 10 for many years. Oh, and then there's someone I've gotten to know over the last few years: Martina Navratilova.

I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

Elvis is great and so is anybody who lasts like he does.

When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.

I grew up in a small Latino community that was very masculine-driven.

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.