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“I would say, my influences go back a little further than some folks. I think what your influences are can certainly help you. It's like a tree with really deep roots; the firmer they're planted in the ground, the better foundation you have to build upon.”

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Author:Charlie Worsham

“Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.”

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Author:Wyclef Jean

“Akon is a very talented songwriter to work with. His melodies, they're just insane. It's funny, I think about him a lot when I'm doing my melodies because he's so simple, and he's just been great. He keeps me on my feet, very grounded, but he also puts me on a silver platter, which is always very nice. So it's been an incredible influence. It's like every time you work with somebody that's better that you are, you become greater.”

Thinking Simple Greater Nice Feet Influence Incredibles Insane Silver Melody Songwriters Grounded Very Nice Silver Platter

Author:Lady Gaga

“A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.”

Thinking Long Passion Influence Flower Sickness Chill

Author:Felicia Hemans

“I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.”

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Author:John McCain

“The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.”

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Book:Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds

Source: Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds

“Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.”

Thinking Way Able Chance Influence

Book:Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion

Source: Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion

“I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.”

Thinking Way Influence

Author:Kam Williams

“I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.”

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Author:Nia Long

“I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“I think these nine months of pregnancy are a gift nature gives you to get you ready to be a mother. You couldn't be a mother without thinking about it. You want to be ready. Of course that influences you, but in a way I can't really explain.”

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Author:Juana Molina

“I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.”

Thinking Way Firsts Kind Real Bigs Fighting Influence Filmmaker Opera

Author:Zack Snyder

“I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.”

Thinking Art Bigs Young Novel Generations Influence Tradition Martial Arts Our Generation

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.”

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Author:Rebecca Miller

“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

“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.”

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Author:Christian Fennesz

“I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.”

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Author:Hale Appleman

“I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.”

Thinking Knows Book Inspiration Certain Found Influence Childhood Huge Magician Brideshead Revisited

Author:Hale Appleman

“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.”

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Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“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.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:John Kasich

“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 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.”

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Author:Michael Gungor

“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.”

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Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo

“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.”

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Author:Laura Mullen

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Rokia Traore

“I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my daily occurrences to influence the direction. I don't want my daily life or my happiness to be a direct influence on music or my sadness.”

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Author:Justin Vernon

“Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.”

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Author:Colin Meloy

“There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.”

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Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too."”

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Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.”

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Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.”

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Author:Tod Machover

“I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.”

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Author:Nelly

“And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.”

Thinking Way Hard Facts Moving Speak Break Influence Who You Are

Author:David Tennant

“I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.”

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Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky

“Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as a guitar player, it will come out in your improvisational style, maybe as a song writer it might come out in your note choices, or in your melodic choices, and it just helps to making your music that much more original and unique.”

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Author:John Petrucci

“It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."”

Thinking Said Hard Play Night Forget Worry Influence Every Night Forget It

Author:Gena Rowlands

“I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest of the population is the biggest problem. That is caused by two things: campaign finance and the way that's structured, and by the Citizen's United supreme court decision. So those two things are keeping democracy from working right.”

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Author:Shepard Fairey

“I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.”

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Author:James Ellroy

“If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.”

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Author:Page Hamilton

“When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.”

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Author:Vince Staples

“If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to be influenced, subtly, by everything I read, like a sponge. But then, what writers aren't? Being a literary sponge is one of the prerequisites for this insanity.”

Ifs Thinking Asks Influence Ask Me Insanity Prerequisites Sponges

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.”

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Author:Karen Salmansohn

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