Quotes About Influence

When I was younger, I used to always think making it to the NBA would be the coolest thing in the world. I'd dream about it every day. But as you progress and you attain that goal, then you realize the coolest thing is the effect you can have on people, and kids especially.

There is always competition for influence, but there are also opportunities for cooperation.

Long time ago, I was going to be a New York cop, then got involved with this girl who was into acting, then got bit by the acting bug myself.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

Since I was a kid, I've always been able to copy the mannerisms and body language of everyone around me.

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.

There are a lot of players when I watch them playing I say, 'Amazing, I want to do like them.' But not to be like them - just some parts to copy. But always be myself and always play my own style.

It's okay to be inspired by somebody else, but don't copy somebody else.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

No one seems to want to do anything about diving in the game apart from me. I'm still amazed by it. Kids everywhere are watching, all copying it. No one seems to care about it.

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe!

People like Tay Don, Don Cannon, and OJ Da Juiceman - those were the core people that I rock with. And I still rock with them.

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

Destiny's Child I grew up on hard core. Like, I can't tell you how much I love the three of them so much and what they had to offer.

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.