I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
Buddy Rich

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
Marco Rubio

My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.
Sasha Cohen

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
Clay Aiken

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
Dominic Chianese

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.
Rupert Murdoch

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
Lena Horne

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DeForest Kelley

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Robert Anton Wilson

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Henri Bergson

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.
Geezer Butler

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
Bruce Springsteen

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Johan Huizinga

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Ibrahim Rugova

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
Arsene Wenger

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
Dennis Ritchie

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy Tan

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing