#influenced

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

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. ↗

— Charles King

#change #church #got #honestly #hymn

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#drive #enough #got #guardian #i

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#colonial #decisions #during #fifties #french

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#films #i #influenced #inspired #made

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past. ↗

— Walter Salles

#brazil #cinema #done #echoing #generation

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#compete #extreme #find #games #go

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#both #clapton #eric #eric clapton #friends

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist. ↗

— Chris Brown

#because #compare #ever #gonna #hate