The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
~By James Cameron ~
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
~By Henry George ~
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
~By Leo Burnett ~
So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.
~By Warren Jeffs ~
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
~By Gene Wolfe ~
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
~By Josh Billings ~
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
~By John Sladek ~
In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.
~By Robert Rainy ~
I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.
~By Susie Bright ~
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
~By Don DeLillo ~
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
~By Zac Hanson ~
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
~By Gilbert Hernandez ~
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
~By Lee Konitz ~
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
~By Henri Matisse ~
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.
~By Charles King ~
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
~By Conrad Hall ~
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
~By Mark Twain ~
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
~By Clay Aiken ~
As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
~By Marguerite Young ~
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
~By Sai Baba ~
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
~By Morley Safer ~
I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.
~By Pia Toscano ~
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
~By Lee Strasberg ~
Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer.
~By Tom Araya ~
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location.
~By Max von Laue ~
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.
~By Michael P. Anderson ~
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
~By Gordon Waller ~
When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.
~By Geezer Butler ~
The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.
~By Michael Fish ~
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
~By John Foxe ~
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
~By Origen ~
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
~By Brian McKnight ~
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
~By Don DeLillo ~
The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
~By Ivor Novello ~
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.
~By Ruben Blades ~
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
~By Julius Erving ~
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
~By William H. Seward ~
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
~By Tony Iommi ~
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
~By Don Marquis ~
Public influence is the real government of the world.
~By Josiah Warren ~
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
~By Giorgos Seferis ~
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
~By Dashiell Hammett ~
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
~By Bryan White ~
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
~By Akhenaton ~
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
~By Herodotus ~
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
~By Tiger Woods ~
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
~By Jack Vance ~
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
We influence singing but never really songwriting.
~By Charles King ~
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
My major influence was my ten years older sister.
~By Willa Ford ~
That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
~By Pat Sajak ~
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
~By Edgar Winter ~
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
~By Henri Poincare ~
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~By Henry Adams ~
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
~By David Soul ~
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
~By Philip Knight ~
Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.
~By Tim Conway ~
As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
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