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My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. ↗

— Andy Partridge

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I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar. ↗

— Andy Partridge

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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. ↗

— Jean Paul

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I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. ↗

— Ron Paul

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It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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