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My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

I have always looked up to my brothers. They are a huge influence on me. We constantly text and Facebook each other to give each other support. And we all hang out at home when we are in town together.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence,

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

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.

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

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.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I learned a lot about what I do with my craft, how I present my music. A lot of things about him were very much an influence on me and everybody else. Once you get in that fold and you're around it, you get to experience something that I don't think we'll ever see again. There will never be anybody like Frank Sinatra. Ever.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

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.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.

I influence people - hopefully on the positive side.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.

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.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

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.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you're in the public eye, you have a decision to make - whether you are going to be an influence or not.

Experience in other countries shows how big money, rather than the best political candidate, can influence politics.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life, and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

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 we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.