That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours.
I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
We are a great fit, and I'm excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.
There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.
Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.
My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.
To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.
Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.
Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.
Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.
The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.
I'd say that Ray Charles is definitely the biggest influence on my singing. Also Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I'm a big fan.
My dad had a huge influence. He's my idol, and I'm following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.
Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life.
Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.
If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
There's this moment happening in our culture where the power of the audience and the influence that people of color have is undeniable at this point.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
At least on the domestic side of things that you`re seeing, [Mike] Pence has that influence big time. But when it comes with what political fights to have?
As soon as I got in the NBA, I was thinking about it - wanting to use my influence and resources to help different communities.
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in filmmaking.
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
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