#influences

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

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My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

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As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record. ↗

— Scott Weiland

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

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My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

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