#influence

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder. ↗

— Jon Secada

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I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out. ↗

— Robert Shea

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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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I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

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One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. ↗

— Martin Short

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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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There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about. ↗

— Anna Sui

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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