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Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world
Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.
Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.
When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I'm a big fan.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
Billionaires who want to influence politics could get better 'returns on investment' than from early stage Amazon.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and rock.
There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds.
I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church
We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.
Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.
There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.