#flu

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you? ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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I'm really influenced by so many different things. ↗

— Alex Winter

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The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today. ↗

— Edgar Winter

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There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland. ↗

— Johnny Winter

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