Quotes About Influence

My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

It means a lot that my peers think so much of me that they would pick me to be their team leader.

I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

I'm used to being respected for what I do, and I've watched as my peers - Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte - do the same thing and I remember the ones before me - LL, Run-DMC - how it was for them. I think we were able to achieve what we achieved because we watched the generation before us.

I've searched all of my life for approval from my dad who is not around. So if I can get approval by his fans or from peers and critics, it helps me.

There's a lot of guys that I obviously admire. The Gary Paytons, me growing up in Seattle being able to watch him play. Even my peers now, the Patrick Beverleys and the Kawhi Leonards, I admire those guys.

I don't want to see a kid get hurt trying to imitate me or trying to do something he or she has seen one of my peers do.

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.

Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.

People who weren't watching basketball were still fans of Lil Penny.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The environment shapes people's actions.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.