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"What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time."
"The influence is really all over the place. Detroit, definitely because of Motown and Stooges. When you come from a place like Detroit, you're really proud of what you have there."
"I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence."
"We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream."
"Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions."
"One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world."
"My major influence was my ten years older sister."
"A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences."
"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."
"Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting."
"Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare."
"The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading."
"All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence."
"Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full."
"For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached."
"Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence."
"Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned."
"Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence."
"Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom."