#influence

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

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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

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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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The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

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Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life. ↗

— Julius Erving

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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

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I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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