Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that’s also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them. – Irwin Winkler
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins. – Jon Landau
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us. – Joyce Meyer
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it’s hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. – Joel Coen
I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all. – Joyce Meyer
I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it. – Juliana Hatfield
Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there. – Jack Keane
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He’s the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed. – Jerry Saltz
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. – John L. Lewis
My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run. – Justin Cronin
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence. – John Tyler
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others. – John Quincy Adams
I’m sure my mum was a huge influence on my wanting to be an actress: just seeing her doing it, seeing her love it, caring about it. Invest in something, take it seriously and be so wonderful. – Hattie Morahan
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome. – Iain McGilchrist
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music’s unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence. – Jon Landau
I’ve been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor. – John Coltrane
What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families. – Joe Paterno
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. – Jules Verne
People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you’ve got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it’s cheating. – Joanna Lumley
The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN. – Jesse Helms
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. – John Berger
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they’ll tell you if you ask. – Isaac Hayes
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. – Jamie Foxx
I’ve always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything’s had its influence on me. – J. M. G. Le Clezio
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on. – John Updike
