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I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses.
Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
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.
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.
I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.
Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.
Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something.
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.
Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.
Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.
That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.
The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.
Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
I remember being captivated by Steve Coogan and Eddie Izzard and wanting to do what they did. That generation of comedians was my main influence.
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.
As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself. It's a constant, flowing web of influence. And information. And retweets.
Though it is very easy to do valuations, eyeballs and brand prominence surveys, you should never allow any of them to influence the balance sheet.
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence?
People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.
My first records were KISS's 'Love Gun,' Twisted Sister's 'Stay Hungry,' and Motley Crue's 'Shout at the Devil.' That had immense influence on me.
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
You can't go on living in past and having regrets. Its better people have a positive influence on other people's lives than worry about themselves.
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.