Everything I experience influences everything I do.
Mandy Patinkin

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
Ben Bernanke

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
Jason Mraz

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
Jean M. Auel

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.
Nuno Bettencourt

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.
GG Allin

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.
Jose Mourinho

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
Walter Jon Williams

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.
Leo Burnett

I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
Damon Albarn

I just have a lot off different influences.
Mose Allison

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
Anne Tyler

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.
Chantal Kreviazuk

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
Mary A. Ward

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.
John Zorn

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Peter Benchley

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
Nicholas Sparks

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo