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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Enormous
System
Steady
Outside
Absorb
Accept
Without
Hinduism
Influences
Capacity
Manner
Peaceful
I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.
Nancy Wilson
Women
Say
Cases
Through
Fair
Know
Singer-Songwriter
Era
Came
Were
Lot
Up
Did
Influences
Them
Who
Many
Earlier
All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week in our house. So that's where my love for music came from.
Ne-Yo
Love
Music
Day
Mom
Our
Seven
Everything
Musical
Week
Days
Hours
House
She
Came
Did
Where
Influences
Who
Played
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
Life
People
Writing
Country
Live
Way
Carolina
Eastern
Wilmington
More
Small
More Than Anything
Exception
Part
Small Towns
Suppose
Towns
Most
Than
North
North Carolina
Influences
Anything
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
Nick Cave
Music
Country
Country Music
Sort
Were
Up
Australian
American
Blues
Influences
Grew
Much
Thing
I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.
Nuno Bettencourt
Older
Too
Definitely
Stuff
New
Also
Affected
Lot
New Stuff
Get
Influences
'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
Pamela Sargent
Time
Science
Space
Worlds
Lone
Opera
Devoid
Science Fiction
Historical
Up
Being
Fiction
Influences
Holland
Much
Unique
Usual
Novel
Novelist
Floating
Published
Present
Pulp
I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.
Passenger
Life
Lion
You
People
Listening
Too
Focused
John
Classic
Simon
Writer
Share
Songwriters
Like
Know
Real
Been
Up
American
Influences
Dylan
Paul
Paul Simon
Bob
Bob Dylan
Really
Whole
Grown
Grown-Up
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Patrick Stump
Punk
Fall
Our
Framework
Out
Kind
All-Out
Within
Boy
Always
Were
Influences
Pop
Playing
I found my father through other people, through my older brothers, my high school coaches, so I had men influences along the way who helped me.
Paul Pierce
Me
People
School
Father
Men
Older
Other
Way
High
Brothers
High School
Through
Had
Along
Influences
Coaches
Who
Helped
Older Brothers
Found
There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I think that it is a feminine instrument, so when I do not sing, the music expresses my voice.
Paulina Rubio
Music
Guitar
Example
Think
Voice
Countries
For Example
Sing
Instrument
Feminine
Lot
Different
Influences
Different Countries
Expresses
Chose
The phenomenon of fame is literally invisible, but it influences and dominates your life if you aren't careful.
Penn Badgley
Life
You
Invisible
Fame
Influences
Literally
Your
Phenomenon
Careful
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Peter Benchley
Me
Single
Think
Both
Writer
Read
Non-Fiction
Very
Fiction
Influences
Who
Widely
I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
Philippe Petit
Saying
Man
Amazing
First
Air
Francis
Cite
Rings
Ten
Could
Onstage
Throw
Outside
He
Perfection
Am
Juggler
Quest
Lot
Influences
Really
Who
Keep
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
Pierre Bourdieu
Work
Education
Culture
Important
Differences
Those
Minor
Classes
Point
Simply
Between
Affirmation
Hugely
Hobbies
Influences
Reproduction
Social
Show
Groups
How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Day
Great
History
World
Impossible
Matter
First
Breath
Our
One Day
Mystery
Through
Animated
Part
Souls
How
Were
Reflected
Forever
Cells
Influences
Decipher
Which
Us
Successive
Whole
Each
Each One
Incorporated
I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
Raghav Bahl
Love
News
Daily
Change
Enjoy
Kind
Would
India
Something
Stuff
Like
Policy
Doing
Did
Just
Influences
Public
Public Policy
Series
Based
Programme
What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level.
Rei Kawakubo
Fashion
You
People
Emotions
Feelings
Important
Way
Wear
Both
Look
Practical
Important Role
How
Aesthetic
Govern
Role
Influences
Regard
Your
Largely
Level
Plays
A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.
Rex Orange County
Music
Me
Song
Three
First
Ocean
Every
Other
Frank
Ways
Released
Taken
Also
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Always
Were
Lot
Wonder
Than
Artists
Influence
Where
Influences
Jeff
Enjoyed
Albums
I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I'm happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else's.
Rex Orange County
Heart
Happy
Song
Else
Sleeve
Musical
Out
Wear
Someone
Point
Like
Sounds
Off
Influences
Show
My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
Rich Brian
People
Comedy
Internet
YouTube
Say
People Say
Variety
Dave
Through
Stuff
Influences
Movies
Stand-Up Comedy
Wide
Wide Variety
Watching
Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.
Rita Ora
Me
People
Style
Wearing
London
Always
Were
Up
Influences
Wore
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Raised
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.
Robert Jay Lifton
Work
Day
Whatever
Our
Say
Carry
Kinds
Some
Through
Take
Off
Any
Just
Influences
Ordinary
Them
Really
Deepen
Bombarded
Images
American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.
Robert Kennedy
Good
Culture
World
Rest
Reflect
Heritage
Other
Our
Books
Thus
Ambassador
Linking
American
Endless
Common
Nations
Influence
Influences
Us
Many
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Robertson Davies
Quality
Way
Writer
Said
Inevitably
However
Inexperienced
Influences
Which
We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Terrorism
Say
East
Eye
Indigenous
Involved
Middle
Influences
Middle East
Might
Groups
Keep
Need
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