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Influence Quotes
"But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only."
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"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."
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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
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"It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock."
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"In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of."
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"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
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"I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer."
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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
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"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
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"The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire."
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"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence."
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"Share your success stories with others. Don't brag, but don't hide your light. People want (and need) to be inspired and instructed. I know I want to follow and learn from successful people. Isn't that the basis for every business and self-help book? People will also give you good ideas to build on your own wins when you share openly. And when you write out your wins to an audience, your own ideas start to grow within you. Will you try? What's a win you've had lately? Don't be shy about it."
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"I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings."
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"No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism."
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"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."
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"He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals."
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"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."
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"When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold."
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"Being with you makes people desire what you represent."
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"Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind."
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"Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me."
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"I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands."
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"I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win."
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"The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion)."
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"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."
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"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."
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"It's not about how smart you are--it's about capturing minds."
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"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
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"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it."
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"The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her."
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"A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull."
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"Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded."
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"I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world."
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