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Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.
It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.
Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.
Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.
We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.
Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.
I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'
The influence of social media is unbelievable. It's sad to see - it's a fake life that some people live.
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.
As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else.
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.
You have to have already convinced yourself that you are going to win no matter what other influences are.
If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.
The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.
I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.