Quotes About Influence

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to take whatever she taught.

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.

My dad taught me; Mr. Steven Seagal taught me, also.

Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.

I taught Drake everything he knows.

Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when I've taught Sunday school classes.

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Golf is me and buddies out having a good time, but most of all, golf is about me and my dad. Anytime I think of golf, I think about my dad. He taught me how to hit a golf ball, and he got me playing.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I call him 'Daddy Coach.' He's taught me everything that he's known so I'm able to do what I'm able to do.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.

If I were a Democrat, I'd talk about taking money out of politics, but would tax businesses to provide kickbacks and multiply my own campaign war chest by 600%.

Don't allow politically connected folks to get their particular tax breaks.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy for the United States.

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.