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Mantovani was a great influence on me. -- Brian May
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. -- Martin Short
I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it. -- Edward Moore
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up. -- Debra Wilson
David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things. -- Joan Van Ark
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. -- Howard Nemerov
My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence. -- Sasha Cohen
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. -- Amy Tan
With great influence comes great responsibility. -- Melanie Iglesias
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read. -- Michael Foot
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. -- Edmund Burke
You were born to influence, you were called to influence, your existence is a great influence to all nations. -- Euginia Herlihy
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye." -- Amy Tan
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States. -- John Marshall
If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger. -- Kevin Richardson
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. -- Donald Barthelme
I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound. -- Susan Tucker
I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me. -- Orhan Pamuk
The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become. -- Richard Cecil
Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it. -- Vijay Singh
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers. -- Benjamin Franklin
I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive. -- Judy Collins
My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet. -- Nat Turner
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. -- Vera Wang
A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes. -- Mahalia Jackson
Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery. -- Linus Roache
However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way. -- Alex Morrison
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good. -- Dean Dillon
New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. -- Tracey Ullman
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. -- Sol LeWitt
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. -- Manuel Puig
I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you. -- Eric Bana
No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ. -- Ezra Taft Benson
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. -- Joseph Addison
It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players. -- Ace Frehley
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. -- Kat Dahlia
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. -- Bertrand Russell
A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column. -- Warren Bennis
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there. -- J. August Richards
Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state. -- Anatole France
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. -- Lord Acton
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(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.) -- Rainbow Rowell
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. -- Michael Scott
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas. -- Bob Burg
In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. -- Vasily Smyslov
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses. -- Ruth E. Carter
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say "Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history -- Will Durant
It's a sad day in America when foreign governments with deep pockets have more influence in our own country than our great citizens. -- Donald Trump
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. -- Harold Bloom
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin. -- Dmitri Volkogonov
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up. -- Ben Fountain
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx. -- H. G. Wells
When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit. -- Henry Thomas Buckle
Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good. -- David B. Haight
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other. -- Laurence Sterne
When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children, -- Julie B. Beck
Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input. -- Jonny Lee Miller
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. -- Robert Henri
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. -- John H. Johnson

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