[President John F.] Kennedy must be a strange character—obstinate, sensitive, ruthless and highly sexed.
Earl of Stockton
Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he is certainly one of the most influential.
Anybody with a big personality, I'm a big fan of.
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.
People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music. He did his soundtracks by himself, using mostly electronic and analog synthesizers. He's a cult figure with DJs these days for good reasons.
There was Rajniji, Subhash Ghai, Dimple Kapadia, Anupam Kher, and a few other friends at my wedding. That's it.
Just to be, overall, I want to be one of the greats: overall, someone that leaves a good mark, someone everybody always remember.
I was quite the Mr Popular both among the students and teachers in school.
In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.
In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.
I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
My mum is a total go-getter.
'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
Everywhere I go, people know who I am.
Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking.
At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.
Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
When [Lyndon B.] Johnson wanted to persuade you of something, when you got the "Johnson treatment," you really felt as if a St. Bernard had licked your face for an hour, had pawed you all over.
Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important justices in the nation's history; he was also among the greatest.
He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.
Dad was high society, a big man in town, a 'Who's Who' in New jersey.
I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?
