Quotes About Influence

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.

Colombia changed the way I write and sing.

I realized that if I did well in Colombia, I could do well in the world.

My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

I wear things that aren't in fashion. I wear colors that aren't in fashion. And as a result of that, I kind of bring it back. I feel like nothing really ever goes out of style. It's just what the media and what people tell people to wear. I think having your own sense of fashion is important.

As a kid, I was called Tintin because of my hair colour and style.

Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.

It's very easy to colour the thoughts of people in the age of social media. If you are being bombarded with some lies constantly, you tend to believe it's true.

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.

I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together -entertaining and marketing - it's like things start to go crazy.

There are more players on 'Fallout Shelter' than all of my games combined. That's a little sobering at times. It's not a good or bad thing.

I'm in this profession because of Mani Ratnam. He was the one who brought me here. He taught me everything. And he inspired me to make a comeback.

I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.

You know, as a comedian, that's what you do. You speak truth to power by making people laugh.

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'

The comic I can now never enjoy again is Bill Cosby. He was truly one of the first comedians I got into.

I grew up on Abdul Halim Hafez and Esmail Yassine, a great comedic actor. I think Adel Imam also changed and revolutionised the game and comedy in Egypt.

The day people stop watching sex comedies, makers will stop making them.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.