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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.
'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
My circle includes some of the most influential people in the world. They all occasionally suffer from depression. Our DNA is built to serve and interact, not be worshipped.
Obviously the original 'Tron' was a very influential movie for its time, so to be a part of the second one is very exciting.
I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.
The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment - they don't rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion.
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.
The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.
Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.
British leadership in Europol has made the law-enforcement agency far more effective, and we have been influential in making human trafficking one of its top priorities.
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.
Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.
From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.
As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.
I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page
The most influential people in my life are deceased. These include my parents, George Dunne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my minister in college.
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.
I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].
Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.
The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.
My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.
There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.
There's so many STP songs that are just classic to me, and just so influential in my musical growth.
The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.
Goalkeeper is a very influential position, and that is becoming recognised now. If you think about it, any error that we make can be fatal for the team. It can lead to a goal and cause a defeat.
Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.
The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.
Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.
I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.
Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.
The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world.
With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.
Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.
For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff was very influential. And church and gospel.
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.
Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.
If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'
Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.
Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all about technology.
Harley's been influential, but I'm not a big Harley fan.
I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.