Influence
I happened to write "Spinning Around," that I gave to Kylie Minogue. She hadn't done a record in seven years and was looking for a great dance number. It literally re-launched her career, and when all these kids came into audition for Pop Idol, they sang "Spinning Around."
—Paula Abdul on the song, to Ocala Star-Banner.Due to the title of the song it has been used regularly in reference to politics, for example BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage of the 2000 US presidential election and Andrew Marr's news report on Tony Blair's resignation speech.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on “the intentions of the Creator.” But their platitudes have ceased to have any influence with those women who believe they have the same facilities for communication with the Divine mind as men have.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“For character too is a process and an unfolding ... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)