Quotes About Influence

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.