#influence

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

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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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One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

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My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. ↗

— John Malkovich

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When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries. ↗

— Ed Royce

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