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:
“To-day ... when material prosperity and well earned ease and luxury are assured facts from a national standpoint, woman’s work and woman’s influence are needed as never before; needed to bring a heart power into this money getting, dollar-worshipping civilization; needed to bring a moral force into the utilitarian motives and interests of the time; needed to stand for God and Home and Native Land versus gain and greed and grasping selfishness.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“Exhaust them, wrestle with them, let them not go until their blessing be won, and, after a short season, the dismay will be overpast, the excess of influence withdrawn, and they will be no longer an alarming meteor, but one more brighter star shining serenely in your heaven, and blending its light with all your day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)