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“Bowie's been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the 'Diamond Dogs' album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.”

Influence Huge Bowie

Author:Adam Lambert

“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”

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Book:The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the

Source: The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the

“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.”

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Author:Mike McCready

“The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.”

Giving Firsts Long Reason Attention Rich Influence Couple Politician Long Time Lots Of Money Broadcasters

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“My first influences were superhero artists.”

Firsts Artist Influence Superhero

Author:Scott McCloud

“My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.”

Ifs Wanted Beautiful Doors Influence Opening I Love Him Sideways Hendrix Looking Down Opening Doors

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.”

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Author:Barbara Olson

“I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.”

Littles Bigs School Hell Influence Bob

Author:Buck Owens

“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.”

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Author:Keith O'Brien

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

I Can Can Do Influence Raised

Author:Rita Ora

“As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.”

Christian Spiritual Song Influence Ministry Crystals Christian Music

Author:Stacie Orrico

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

Character Influence

Author:Tea Obreht

“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

“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Seems Pieces Influence Particular Degrees Determine Admire Input Counterproductive

Author:Kevin Powers

“The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.”

“It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.”

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Author:Adam Weishaupt

“We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.”

Ifs May Enough Certain Powerful Air Influence Effects Serious Goes On Presses Threat Radio Jew Advertising Instance Firm Features Remove Mutual Threatened Disturbed Motion Pictures

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural Life of Grace in society and will be an active ferment of Naturalism.”

Race Leader Grace Influence Jew Active Proportion Rulers Naturalism

Author:Denis Fahey

“The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.”

Christianity Greater Influence Failure Areas West Spread Spain Outlook

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.”

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Author:Christina Romer

“It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.”

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Author:Lionel Richie

“I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.”

Realizing Influence Grew Grew Up West Bucks

Author:Lionel Richie

“Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.”

Country Perfect Growing Up Growing Influence Pops Grandmother Pot My Grandmother Classical Music Melting Melting Pot

Author:Lionel Richie

“In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.”

Facts Player Influence Clubs Awful Owners

Author:Pete Rozelle

“All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.”

Persons Violence Influence Video Disturbed

Author:Alana Stewart

“I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.”

People Littles Said Different Nice Influence Directors Hypothetical

Author:Andrew Sarris

“Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.”

Enough Government Influence Spheres Hypocritical Criminality Allegations Sphere Of Influence

Author:Edward Snowden

“Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.”

Important Culture Christ Community Church Influence Locals Skeptical Our Community Apologetic Local Church

Author:Lee Strobel

“Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.”

Ifs Trying Force Voice Forget Talking Influence Information Forget It Disregard Physical Force

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.”

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Author:Jonny Lang

“Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.”

Firsts Long Artist Wonder Gone Influence Havens Long Time Guitar My Favorite Really Long Favorite Artist

Author:Jonny Lang

“Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.”

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Author:Morley Safer

“I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.”

Way Book Might Purpose Influence Internet Positively

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.”

Should Spiritual Community Religious Leader Influence Vote Environmental Activism Access Spiritual Life Spiritual Leader

Author:Radhanath Swami

“I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.”

Want Wells Bigs Influence Albums Pops Ballads

Author:Pia Toscano

“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

“Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.”

Today Parent Decision Influence Awareness Danger Football Athlete Coaches Buying Helmet Concussions

Author:Tom Udall

“There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.”

Littles Remember Bits Influence Little Bit

Author:Jack Vance

“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

“I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.”

Thinking Facts Influence Enormous

Author:La Monte Young

“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

“I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.”

World Humans Wells Political Literature Human Beings Influence Economic Crisis Ancient Significance Disputes Economic Crisis

Author:Mo Yan

“... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.”

People Trying Interesting Crazy Influence Songwriters Nashville

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.”

Answers Focus Meditation Influence Concepts Clarity Arrogance Blurry

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.”

People Persons Political Easy Religious Brain Opinion Share Influence Tasks Everyday Deeper Senses Sense Of Humor Rooted Closest Best Friend Factions Closest Friends Political Opinions

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.”

Use Dream Time Energy Force Leader Influence Stronger Focused Your Dreams Over You Impetus I Am Strong

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

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