Influenced Quotes

656 Influenced quotes by 595 unique authors

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so… — Petrarch
Kids get influenced by other kids. — Paul Pierce
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may… — Natalie Portman
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities,… — Dennis Prager
If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is… — Paul Rand
Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever… — Buddy Rich
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. — Sam Rockwell
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an… — Jose Saramago
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living… — Rupert Sheldrake
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow… — Thomas Sowell
I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired. — Elaine Stritch
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with. — Mick Taylor
The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the… — Emma Thompson
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. — Hunter S. Thompson
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. — Scott Weiland
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. — Ai Weiwei
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at… — Vivienne Westwood
One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me. — Ricky Williams
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired. — Brian Wilson
When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing… — Steven Wright
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it. — Martin Filler
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a… — Helen Fisher
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed… — Charles Bukowski
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in… — Leo Tolstoy

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