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The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values. ↗

— James Dobson

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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

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Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ↗

— Albert Claude

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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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