Quotes About Influential

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family.

Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out." Something bad might happen..." Impossible. But possibly something painful" -A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

The most influential figure involved in clarifying the Babylonian pointing system was without doubt Paul Kahle, who in 1902 wrote a study of a manuscript he had found in Berlin and which he correctly classified as Yemenite-Babylonian.

Under my rule, even ministers and MLAs of my party have been sent to jail when found indulging in corruption and criminal activities, whereas in previous regimes no action was taken against any influential person.

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

I really like Pat Parker. I really like Audre Lorde. I read a lot of the Beats when I was younger, so Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder. I've been discovering a lot more modern poems as well.

There are some people who leave a lifelong impact on you. Gayatri Devi, whom we remember as Princess Ayesha of Cooch Behar, is one such persona I will admire all my life.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.

I wanted to be a great producer so I studied great hip-hop producers, but also stuff beyond that: Phil Spector, David Axelrod, Gamble and Huff. They're equally as influential to me as Dilla, Premier, and Pete Rock.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

It's fun to be the guy that can be so polarising and have that effect on so many different people.

The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

I know in my heart of hearts that Ritchie Blackmore is one of the great guitar players of all time. He's a fabulous technician, and he's got incredible skills, and he was a great showman.

Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.

It's a blessing to be a part of television shows that were, to a certain extent, staples in a lot of people's lives and as far as their entertainment lives.

Recent scholarship confirms the portrait of John F. Kennedy sketched by his brother in Thirteen Days: a remarkably cool, thoughtful, nonhysterical, self-possessed leader, aware of the weight of decision, incisive in his questions, firm in his judgment, always in charge, steering his advisers perseveringly in the direction he wanted to go. "We are only now coming to understand the role he played in it," writes John Lewis Gaddis, the premier historian of the Cold War.

Archbold] was a man of imagination, of courage, of great persuasiveness, with a genius for reading men and dealing with them.