Influenced Quotes

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

I was always influenced by language.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.