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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.