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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

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Years Art States Able Christ Perfect Healing Lord Five Influence Hundred India Ancient Efficient Physicians Surgery Abolish Present Day Ancient India Lord Buddha

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams

“Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.”

Thinking Years Influence Profound Sophomore Sophomore Year

Author:Conrad Aiken

“Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.”

Ifs Years Kind Doe Film Next Wish Influence Car Cost Critics Explaining Motor Next Year Helicopters Postcards General Motors

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.”

“At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art.”

Thinking World Years Art Important Today Jobs Lasts Artist Crazy Influence Changed Keys Photography Incredibles Treated Cinema

Author:Ferran Adria

“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”

“In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.”

People Years Lasts Results Influence Position Unheard Misused

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.”

Ifs Men Years Stills Play Law Force Process Views Attitude Psychology Atheism Influence Exercise Years Ago Terror Atmosphere Poison Reasoning Score Bigotry Heretic Armed Forces Invoke

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.”

“I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.”

Years Stills Bigs School Views Influence Havens Changed Brother Old Man Mentality I Haven't Changed

Author:David Bowie

“the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.”

“Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.”

Years Earth Influence Years Of Life

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.”

Thinking Years Believe Made Values Born Influence Skills Hunger Affected Villain

Author:Ron Perlman

“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.”

“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”

Years May Said Done Character Three Jesus Simple Practice Virtue Records Influence Mankind Highest Patterns Philosopher Active Strongest Three Years Incentives Moralist Active Life

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.”

Years Wells Sound Influence Years Ago Inspired Songwriting Listening To Music

Author:Mose Allison

“I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.”

Years School Influence Republican Ten Satisfying Establishment Grammar Thumbs Revolt Grammar School

Author:Bernadette Devlin

“The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.”

Years Mind Moments Political Courses Politics Decision Influence Events Office Hundred Critical Corny Commonplace Critical Moments

Book:Thomas Hardy

Source: Thomas Hardy

“For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.”

People Years Quality Virtue Influence Honest Habit Increase Relation Vices Defects Vicious Inconvenience Honest People Inconstancy

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.”

“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.”

Years Wells Religion Difficult Women Cutting Sea Influence Land Periods Thousand Paid Seven Extremes Miles Boundaries Significance Reverence Goddess Longevity Thousand Years Immensity Expanse

Author:Merlin Stone

“When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?”

Feels Should Years Two Soul Running Fire Influence Mines Degrees Perception Should I Plato Egyptian Hue Latitude Two Souls

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“I'm actually a 'Witch' not Wiccan...justa Witch. I started reading Tarot when I was 8 years old. I dabble in astrology, Candle Magick, gems/stone Magick and I mainly use herbs for cooking. But cooking is it's own Magick-when done right. Actually, when I colour Tarot...I do use a form of Colour Magick..colours do influence mood...so I conscienciously choose certain colours for certain scenes.”

Years Done Use Form Certain Reading Influence Scene Stones Cooking Mood Colour Witch Candle Astrology Herbs Gems Tarot Wiccan

Author:Holly Golightly

“My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence.”

Knows Years Different Play Stories Shows Father Seeing Influence Son Dad Band Typical Rehearsal

Author:Jon Connor

“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.”

Ifs Years Different Force Business Situation Environment Influence Possibility Negative Years Ago Impact Assuming Bunch Optimistic Positively Negative Influence

Author:Jeffrey Hollender

“Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss”

Men Years Light Loss Sun Influence Years Ago This Day Inquiry Console

Author:Richard Cecil

“For more than 220 years - from the 1620s to the 1840s - most American schooling was independent of government control, subsidy, and influence. From this educational freedom the American Republic was born.”

Years Government Born Influence Independent Educational Republic Schooling Subsidies

Author:Marshall Fritz

“I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.”

Thinking Years Important Play Film Wish Doubt Influence Movement Painting Cinema No Doubt Editing Sculpture

Author:Martin Scorsese

“The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reality that there's a huge number of other things that influence that on a year-to-year basis.”

Ifs Years Reality Numbers Responsibility Talking Sea Influence Huge Scientist Bases Embrace Ice Journalist Arctic Huge Numbers

Author:Andrew Revkin

“We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.”

Years Believe Stills States Views Influence Former Republic Soviet Head Of State

Author:Irakli Okruashvili

“Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.”

Years Art Made Bigs Today Meditation Influence Six My Favorite Who I Am Martial Arts Halloween Surfing Turtles Ninja Skateboarding Mikey Ninja Turtle

Author:Greg Cipes

“When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.”

Years Courses Boys Influence Stones Radio Beach Reaching Cream Teenage Purple Chuck Berries Hendrix Blown Away Teenage Years Beach Boys Deep Purple

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!”

“I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.”

Years Community Influence International Serenity Constructive International Community Calming

Author:Brian Mulroney

“The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.”

Years Country Reason House White Clear Influence Middle Example Position Western Israel East Decades Administration White House Allowing Brotherhood Middle East Muslim Brotherhood

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.”

Years Mind Children Opinion Influence Unfair Discretion

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians. The buffalo and the Plains Indians lived together, and together passed away. The year 1876 marks practically the end of both.”

Men Years Ends Together Animal Influence Mark Shelter Passed Away Buffalo

Book:The Great Plains

Source: The Great Plains

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”

Inspirational Years Children Character Born Influence Hundred Building Character Proper Time

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

“For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next generation or two. But religious people have been singularly uncooperative, and new strategies have developed for controlling this blight on human progress. If religion won't "wither away" as philosopher Richard Rorty has wished, then perhaps it can be privatized and thereby removed from influence on public life‚ - sort of like localizing an outbreak of the plague.”

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”

“Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.”

Way Years Mean School Realizing Attention Influence Stage Huge Band Red I Realized Sense Of Humor Looking Back Sly Demeanor

Author:Jello Biafra

“I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.”

Way Years Firsts Has Beens Girl Strong Interest Player Happened Influence Taught Hero Lessons Seven Guitar Folks Clubs Fantastic Fifteen Scotland Seven Years My Hero Guitar Player Edinburgh

Author:Bert Jansch

“For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.”

Should Years Firsts Moments Bigs Heard Influence Becoming Band Musician Weight Notes Profound My Favorite Radio Eight Starters Favorite Bands

Author:Colin Linden

“I have been looking for a name for years and of course it sounds like it would be easy. Americana came along for the same reason. But to me Americana means Original music with prominent folk/rock influence. Ameripolitan is Original music with prominent roots influence.”

Years Mean Has Beens Reason Would Be Courses Names Easy Sound Influence Rocks Roots Originals Folks Prominent Americana Original Music

Author:Dale Watson

“Well, I've heard a lot of people, but I think I would say a Brazilian musician named Hermeto Pascoal was one of my biggest influences. Through the years he mastered the keyboards. He use to play the organ Hammond B3, flute, saxophone, percussion and guitar. He is one of the most complete musicians that I ever met. Not too long after we came to the United States, Airto Moreira introduced him to Miles Davis, who recorded three of Hermeto's compositions on his album "Live Evil.”

“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

“Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.”

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