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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. ↗

— William Hague

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I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for. ↗

— Jon Hamm

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Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. ↗

— John Hannah

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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from. ↗

— Zac Hanson

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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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