#flu

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

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One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. ↗

— Martin Short

#fife #great #influences

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. ↗

— Nate Silver

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But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have? ↗

— Ron Silver

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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#flunked #fond #i #like #men