Takashi Murakami
Artist
"Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol."
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Influential
62 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Imtiaz Ali
Film Director, Writer
"Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have."
Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"I think, therefore I am ... not here."
Maisie Williams
Actress
"Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things."
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"The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential."
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"It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters."
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"I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential."
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"In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out."
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"Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there."
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"Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers."
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"I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise."
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"Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses."
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"I know I'm the most influential."
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"Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen."
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