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

Thinking Facts Influence Enormous

Author:La Monte Young

“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

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”

Humans Able Wealth Simple Study Groups Influence Huge Amount Activity Concerned Labor Direct Enormous Income Command Civilized Peasants Priesthood Surplus Periodicity

Author:Carroll Quigley

“The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.”

Ifs Way Trying Matter Enough Half Taken Influence Notes Enormous Observation Sensations Sentiments Perpetual Novelty Monotonous Sorrowful

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

“How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way.”

Way Feels Mind Heart Mean Happens Differences Quality Journey Influence Enormous Range

Book:Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

“We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop.”

People Ifs World Done Numbers Company Leader Influence Example Products Vote Responsible Refuse Enormous Global Warming Voters Plastic Wraps Wrapping

Book:Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Source: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

“When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.”

Men Wanted Young Influence New York My Friends Enormous Cinema Young Man Filmmaker French Cinema

Author:Woody Allen

“T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.”

Book House Generations Influence Enormous Pounds My Generation Eliot

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.”

People May Ideas Bigs Wealth Influence Enormous Good Ideas Philanthropy

Author:Charlie Rose

“I started out as a writer with an hour removed from Kingdom of Heaven. You have to make one print for the entire world, and that's something that influences the theatrical cuts of pictures to an enormous degree. It's a reality. You can't have one cut for the Sunni, and one for the Shia, and one each for Tories, Whigs, vegetarians, one cut for the Cineplex, and one for literary intellectuals.”

World Reality Heaven Hours Cutting Influence Degrees Enormous Kingdoms Print Vegetarian Theatrical Kingdom Of Heaven Shia

Author:William Monahan

“My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.”

Looks Mean Has Beens Mother Difficult Share Influence Emotional Photograph Enormous Compare Intensity

Author:Amy Arbus

“The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.”

House White Influence Media Cost Election Congress Enormous Corporations Concentration White House Escalating

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.”

Thinking Years Ends Whole Problem Secret Happened Influence Ten Solutions Fairs Iraq Eight Nine Enormous Mantras

Author:Seymour Hersh

“[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.”

Persons Made Views Influence Century Particular Serious Enormous Usa Thinker Theological Nineteenth Century Determinism

Author:Oliver D. Crisp