#influence

If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? ↗

— William H. Seward

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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. ↗

— George Stephen

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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me. ↗

— Paul Hirsch

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Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration. ↗

— Page McConnell

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New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

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