#influenced

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

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I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it. ↗

— Bob Newhart

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I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media. ↗

— Yannick Noah

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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

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I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time. ↗

— Helen Reddy

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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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