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 ~
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
~By Kim Campbell ~
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
~By Natalie Portman ~
The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.
~By Michael Fish ~
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.
~By Steve Blake ~
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
~By Ted Demme ~
When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.
~By Keith Richards ~
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 am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
~By Barbara Olson ~
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!
~By Dante Hall ~
Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.
~By LeAnn Rimes ~
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Leadership is influence.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
~By David Ogilvy ~
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
~By Bernard Law Montgomery ~
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
~By Roy Ayers ~
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 ~
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
~By Uwe Boll ~
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
~By Tammy Baldwin ~
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
~By Ken Follett ~
The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
~By John T. Flynn ~
I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.
~By Roscoe Mitchell ~
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
~By Henri Bergson ~
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 ~
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.
~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~
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 ~
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 people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
~By Henry Drummond ~
Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
~By George Stephen ~
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
~By John Dyer ~
I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
~By Kip Winger ~
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
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 ~
When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.
~By Geezer Butler ~
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 ~
I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.
~By Michael Bolton ~
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
~By Julius Erving ~
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
~By Robin Gibb ~
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.
~By Hermann Goering ~
The most powerful moral influence is example.
~By Huston Smith ~
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
~By Jacopo Sannazaro ~
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.
~By Tim Murphy ~
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
~By Clint Eastwood ~
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.
~By Stanley Fish ~
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
~By George Stigler ~
Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
~By Bryan White ~
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 have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
~By Josiah Strong ~
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 ~
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
~By Joel Coen ~
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
~By Roger Mudd ~
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
Time control directly influences the quality of play.
~By Boris Spassky ~
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
~By Danny Aiello ~
I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.
~By Edward Moore ~
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
~By Chris Frantz ~
The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
~By Walter Salles ~
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
~By Mose Allison ~
I'm really influenced by so many different things.
~By Alex Winter ~
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
~By Robert Teeter ~
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
~By Keith Henson ~
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.
~By Debra Messing ~
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
~By Don DeLillo ~
So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
~By Kim Dae Jung ~
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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