Can do Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

— Mitt Romney

I admire people who have fought for change: Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln. I'm dead serious when I say that -…

— Ryan Garcia

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

— Shirley Horn

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an…

— Sergio Leone

One of the people I most admired was Christopher Hitchens. He was extremely polarizing but extremely honest, to a fault sometimes, but I respected…

— Matthew Hussey

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

— Gena Showalter

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of…

— Brian Dennehy

George W. Bush - who I'm sure that a lot of people, when I say this, will not be happy about it - but…

— Frank Luntz

I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be…

— Michael Connelly

Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed…

— Patrick Labyorteaux

Bono. He still is somebody who, and I don't say I'm starstruck in that sense, I'm always in awe of. It doesn't matter how…

— Michael Rapino

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

— Walter Jon Williams