#flu

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. ↗

— Louise Brown

#been #books #cumulative #hearing #importance

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. ↗

— Harry Browne

#atomic bombs #bombs #drop #influence #innocent

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#broadway show #classical #classical music #coming #country

Getting into television was a total fluke. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#getting #into #television #total

It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#both #choice #could #desirable #free

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#absence #carries #change #did #every

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conduct #divinity #healing #his #influencing

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern. ↗

— James Cameron

#disparate #films #influenced #me #pattern

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#best #canadians #despite #difficult #either

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted. ↗

— Deana Carter

#big #big fan #could #draw #fan