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Quotes About Influence

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.
~ John Spence
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
~ Jon Fishman
My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
~ Joy Bryant
None of my friends smoke. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.
~ Justin Bieber
I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.
~ Katy B
In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
~ Lauryn Hill
Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.
~ Leo Ryan
Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.
~ Lisa Vanderpump
Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.
~ Lisa Williams
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
~ Manuel Puig
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
~ Mary McCarthy
If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.
~ Maryam D'Abo
Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.
~ Michael Port
I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.
~ Miranda Kerr
I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.
~ Morley Safer
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
~ Nat Wolff
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
~ Nat Wolff
Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.
~ Paul Weyrich
Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.
~ Paulo Coelho
Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.
~ Philip Selznick
Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.
~ Ralph Marston