The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.
We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.
I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
The actions you take today not only impact you; they influence generations. Every matter matters for eternity.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.
A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.
Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.
Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.
But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.
I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.
Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.
When we talk my biggest influence, I have to say Van Gaal. He threw me in the deep end.
Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.
For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.
There are people whose feelings and well-being are within our influence. We can never escape this fact.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.
When I was a kid, my favorite rapper was 50 Cent. He was definitely a big influence on why I wanted to do music.
If the audience feels that we influence the youth, I want them to be inspired by some of the positive characters we play.
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.
Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.
People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.
All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.
If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.
I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.
My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.
My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
Iran and Russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion related to our elections.
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.
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