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“My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.”

Years Has Beens Different Influence Lists Stanley Aces

Author:Mike McCready

“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”

People Knows Writing Has Beens Mother Term Careers Influence Huge Grandmother My Grandmother Supportive Writing Life

Author:Tea Obreht

“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.”

Has Beens Philosophy Influence Myth Republic Founding

Author:Robert Trout

“My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.”

People Has Beens I Can Two Matter Mother Father Influence No Matter What Mother And Father

Author:Jack Wagner

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Artist Influence Direct Architecture Mechanic Japanese Architecture

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.”

Has Beens Facts Values Strong Influence Huge Enormous Grandmother Very Strong My Grandmother Formidable

Author:Anthony Minghella

“You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.”

Has Beens Stills Influence Overcoming Slave Envy Noble

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens I Can Lasts America Winning Given Term Influence Mankind Tragedy Tables Rejoice Conferences Influence And Power

Author:David Lloyd George

“We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.”

Has Beens Able Individual Influence Poet Fine England Insult Insulted

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.”

Has Beens Failing Influence Argument Dues Purity Consideration

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.”

Giving Should Has Beens Art Influence Prove Art Is Rewards Prize Medal Jury Giving In Pernicious

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.”

Has Beens Father Grows Parent Growing Up Influence Profound Divorced

Author:Laura Linney

“Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.”

Knows Men Humans Has Beens Evil Influence Love You Human Nature Despair Yield Brutes Evil Man Good Against Evil Lesser Evil Human Capacity Nature Of Evil

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.”

World Has Beens America Fun Influence Fashion Products Majors Messages Contemporary Factors Advertising Consumers Disco Rediscovery

Author:Neil Bogart

“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.”

“I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.”

Thinking Has Beens Justice Views Issues Influence Point Of View Tendencies Unconscious Minorities Orthodox Subconscious Conform Orthodoxy Suppression Deviate

Author:William O. Douglas

“Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.”

Way Mean Has Beens States Pain Joy Decision Influence Speech Busy Mediums Excitement Awards Dislike Persuasion Present Day Partiality

Book:Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

Source: Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

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