Influence Quotes
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I don't like getting beat up much in films, but Jackie Chan could beat me up anytime. My first influence was Bruce Lee, and then I saw Jackie afterwards, and it was entirely different. When people ask me who I think is the best action star, I don't say Stallone, I don't say Schwarzenegger, I say Jackie. He's my influence, I learn from him, that's why I'm here.
Steve James
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It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.
Gerald Horne
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
William Godwin
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In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
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A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.
Saul Bellow
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Truly successful individuals create both immediate and long-lasting influence attracting others to them.
Bob Burg
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NBA players, we're directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.
Andre Iguodala
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
Marianne Williamson
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You can move a leader’s feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.
Ed Stetzer
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Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.
Carlson Gracie
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There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the perception of pain.
David Eisenberg
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In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.
William Graham Sumner
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Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
Blaise Pascal
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I have felt very frustrated and I would have hoped that my influence in the dressing room might have lifted some of the weight off the shoulders of the captain and coach.
Allan Donald
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters
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If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.
Augusta Jane Evans
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Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me.
Baron Vaughn
