Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me. – Otto Schily
We hope and we’ve made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence. – Stephen Hadley
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. – Walter Jon Williams
Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don’t wanna tell people, ‘I never really listened to Waylon.’ – Sturgill Simpson
When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, ‘The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about’… We keep making that mistake with Putin. – Ted Cruz
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there’s a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it’s cool to mash up a lot of different looks. – Wyclef Jean
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don’t know how to do it. – Vanessa Carlton
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. – Tanith Lee
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. – William Godwin
I’ve got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up. – Zayn Malik
With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts. – Zhang Zhidong
Childhood didn’t have a big influence on me, really – in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. – Simon Callow
I can’t think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life. – Shelley Fabares
Why shouldn’t rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it’s this old idea of containment – that rappers, because they’re black, can’t and shouldn’t aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. – Saul Williams
The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM. – Walshy Fire
When Hegel later became a man of influence’ he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion. – Walter Kaufmann
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn’t visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. – Umberto Eco
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes. – Yelawolf
The more I got into my artistry, I got a bigger responsibility: the kids in Chicago, they look up to the rappers. We influence them. – Tink
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn’t influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television. – Val Kilmer
I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career. – Sid Gillman
There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done. – Stefan Sagmeister
Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader. – Stefon Harris
I think that ‘Mr. Show’ was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I was asked to do a bit at The Comedy Store, and B.J. Porter and I went to see Bob and David – who I’d never heard of – do a live show, which was one of the shows that got them the ‘Mr. Show’ show. – Scott Aukerman
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. – William Gibson
Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face. – Tim Conway
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. – Umberto Eco
It’s not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence. – Siobhan Davies
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project. – Sydney Brenner
