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“I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.”

People Thinking Mind Heart Long Happens Moving Fighting Process Justice Results Race Feet Influence Limits Things Happen Agendas Heart And Mind Arena Eleanor Racial Justice

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.”

People Want Influence Position Threatened Medieval Position Of Power

Author:Charles Dance

“Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.”

“Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.”

Trying Matter Hard Choices Courses Our Lives Influence Circumstances Including Objectives Pursue Journalism Life Experience Reporters Topics

Author:Sheri Fink

“Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided - spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions? Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence.”

People Thinking Wells Facts Might Influence Streets Wall Yeah Dollars Billions Campaigns Contribution Lobbying Campaign Contributions

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.”

Believe Reason Fall I Believe Feet Influence Strange Phones Cells Buried Unusual Gravity Compass Ufo Cell Phone And Off Reception

Author:Alex Hirsch

“If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.”

Ifs Trying Pieces Influence Right Now Behavior Relation Remove Iranian

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.”

Feels Gone Influence Small Parts

Author:Jennifer Coolidge

“I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.”

Feels Important White Influence Conscious

Author:Lev Grossman

“I honestly believe that once people begin to understand what's at stake here, that we have a chance here not just to make our country great, but greater than it's ever been, and we have a plan to do it, I think is going to begin to influence a lot of voters, not to mention coalesce those maybe who were with someone else first around us.”

People Thinking Firsts Believe Country Chance Greater Plans Influence Honestly Our Country Voters Stakes

Author:Marco Rubio

“There were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at the end we have to make sure that we have somebody that can go to that town, change that system, grow employment, change the whole way in which it works and ship power money and influence back to the states. So I'm optimistic about it.”

People Thinking Way Looks Ends States Whole Left Grows Numbers Race Influence Towns Including Ships Optimistic Employment Governors

Author:John Kasich

“Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.”

Fiction Influence Strange University Genre Discovering Power Of Love Blake Joyce Borges Lovecraft Yeats Jeter Pinter

Author:Hal Duncan

“Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's like well, if we were a black metal band we'd sing about Satan, you know? What if we were a Christian metal band? All the songs would be about how much we loved Jesus.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Bigs Would Be Christian Song Jesus Black Influence Band Yeah Satan What If Sci Fi Metals Factories Metal Band Black Metal

Author:Dino Cazares

“There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.”

People Firsts Real Wanted Interesting Influence Rocks Albums Punk Interesting Things

Author:Glenn Branca

“When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird [1962], Gigi [1958], A Woman Under the Influence [1974]. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.”

Firsts Real Enough Bigs Able Young Saws Influence College Mom Connections My Mom Obsessed Print Phases Sheets Get Real Mockingbird Projectors Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Winona Ryder

“A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.”

Way Stills Whole Lasts Order Force Social Influence Middle Effects Century Produce Smart Philosopher Realms Mainstream Countenance Mental Power Physical Force

Author:David Papineau

“I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.”

Should Believe Certain I Believe Religious Influence Example Theory Conscious Substance Subjective Religious Experience Phenomenology Realness Variance

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.”

Three Courses Ability Influence Mood Comparison Formal Flattering Joyce

Author:Teju Cole

“It wasn't just Willie and Waylon, there were a lot of influences there. The coolest thing about this, is after getting to listen back to all these mixes is realizing that this record is like a bag of Skittles; every time you pull something out, it's a different flavor. But they're all Skittles. They're all Cody Johnson.”

Different Realizing Records Influence Bags Flavor Johnson Skittles

Author:Cody Johnson

“Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.”

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Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.”

Thinking Loss Influence Longing Thrillers

Author:Christopher Rice

“I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.”

World Bigs Today Influence Havens Who I Am Bluegrass

Author:Sara Watkins

“The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.”

Way Influence Environmental Measuring Environmental Influences

Author:Richard Bentall

“My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.”

World Character Easy Ability Path Influence Style Familiar Upbringing Life Path Simulate Ability To Adapt

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“I refuse to accept the idea that money is evil. People make things evil and negative. Some people love what money can do and therefore would do anything to get it, they love the power, they chase it, while others understand what money can do, therefore they do what's in their hearts, they understand the influence and attract it.”

People Heart Ideas Evil Can Do Accepting Influence Negative Refuse Evil People Money Is Evil

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.”

Mother Courses Influence Huge Members Female My Family Raised Grandmother My Grandmother Cousin Aunt Family Members Immediate Family

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of Intelligence and their people. This is why we witness a number of journalists and human rights activists, my colleagues, and a number of feminists, in prison.”

People Humans Important Problem Lost Numbers Rights Influence Independence Court Prison Human Rights Feminist Witness Journalist Iran Activist Ministry Colleagues

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“I don't want everybody to try to sound like something; I think that God has given us each unique talents and passions. The things that come out of me will be different than my neighbor, because I have a totally different set of relationships, totally different set influences and personality traits.”

Thinking Want Trying Different Passion Given Sound Influence Talent Personality Unique Neighbor Traits Like Something Personality Traits Unique Talents Talent And Passion

Author:Michael Gungor

“Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.”

Different Process Generations Influence Benefits Organization Function Intelligent Innovation Strategy Factors Regions Units Different Generations

Author:David Livermore

“I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.”

Writing Influence Rhythm Prose

Author:Rob Roberge

“There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.”

Persons Social Memories Situation Known Influence Accounts Conformity Contagion

Author:Rob Roberge

“You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.”

“Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…”

Stories Shows Able Together Girl Boys Growing Up Comedy Growing Influence Thousand Majors Hundred Silent Eras Comedian Charlie Brooks Comedic Chaplin Boy Meets Girl

Author:J. Robert Spencer

“There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.”

Thinking Has Beens Influence Musical Decades Theatre Superiors Genre Broadway Naive Classification Musical Theatre

Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo

“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.”

People Sky Influence Huge Grew Grew Up

Author:John Cariani

“I knew that Vaclav Havel didn't want to look into people's eyes, because he said that, when he was being interrogated during the communist period and had been taken to jail, that, if you look directly into somebody's eyes, they can persuade you. And so you can see that so clearly in this interview, where he's looking down.And I kept saying to him as we kept coming - came over here: " You have to look up."And I clearly had no influence on him.”

People Ifs Want Looks Said Eye Taken Influence Periods Down And Interviews Look Up Jail Communist Looking Down

Author:Judy Woodruff

“If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.”

Ifs World Looks War States Fire Influence Stage Calling Right Now Areas Standing Western Iraq Division Afghanistan Syria Intervention Pits Libya Muslim World Shia

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.”

People Writing Firsts Father Language Difficult Influence Comparison

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.”

Knows Self Beautiful Wife Influence Mom Smart Fey Self Deprecating

Author:Laura Benanti

“My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil.”

Way Wanted Used Influence Late My Friends My Favorite Video

Author:Tom Scharpling

“The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual" can't protect you - these are issues I've been thinking about for a while.”

Thinking Way Facts Individual Issues Influence Protect Importance Protection Recognizing Protect You

Author:Laura Mullen

“"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.”

Self Influence Disease Flow Boundaries Italian Outbreaks Influenza

Author:Laura Mullen

“And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine "identity" in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.”

Needs Light Grief Influence Identity Complicated Protection Usual Dense Interdependence Acknowledgement Entanglement Citations Hybridity Complicated Grief

Author:Laura Mullen

“The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.”

Influence Huge Scene Band Teenager Riot Bikinis

Author:Kieran Hebden

“The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.”

Together Father Interesting Influence Interesting Things

Author:Rokia Traore

“My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.”

Thinking World Kind Different Country Would Be Influence Rocks Unique Advantage India Shame Jazz China Pops Classical Music Pop Music Rock Music Pretension Different Countries World Music

Author:Rokia Traore

“I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.”

Thinking Important Culture Courses Opinion Audience Influence Projects Musical Albums New Projects

Author:Rokia Traore

“I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.”

People Understanding Influence Style Findings Elegance Understanding Why

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“I like the influence of pictures on music and the other way around.”

Way Influence

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.”

Influence Photography Music Is Bigger

Author:Sune Rose Wagner

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