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However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.
- Alex Morrison
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My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.
- Louise Erdrich
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If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
- Pearl Cleage
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Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I very shyly, timidly admitted that I wanted to be an actor. He sighed, and he said, 'Lupita, only be an actor if you feel there is nothing else in the world you want to do - only do it if you feel you cannot live without acting.'
- Lupita Nyong'o
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
- Barbara Olson
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My first records were KISS's 'Love Gun,' Twisted Sister's 'Stay Hungry,' and Motley Crue's 'Shout at the Devil.' That had immense influence on me.
- Tobias Forge
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I appreciate that I have lots of fans out there, and they want to wish me well, but I don't want that to influence how I feel throughout the day or how I act within a scene.
- Bob Morley
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Qing Cheng Mountain was a direct influence on the mysterious final shot of 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'
- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
- Saul Williams
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An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
- Nick Denton
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My major influence is Satyajit Ray; his film 'Shatranj ke Khilari' was set in Awadh and it gave us memorable characters. Ray's musical scores and soundtracks were an intrinsic part of his films. And music to me is important, too.
- Shoojit Sircar
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Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine.
- Natalie Prass
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You'd be surprised how many times I've had to have that conversation with heads of state who want to say to me, 'Well, look, I know you can have some influence on the president. I need you to go back and tell him this.'
- Rex Tillerson
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As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
- Tig Notaro
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Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.
- Daniel Tosh
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I have more influence now than when I had the power.
- Gough Whitlam
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I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.
- Robin Trower
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I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
- Chris Frantz
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One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
- Chris Frantz
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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
- Richard Whately
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
- Otto Schily
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If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
- William H. Seward
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To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.
- Robert C. Solomon
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Historically, the pull towards the center in European politics has been incredibly powerful. From Italy to Germany, it has been almost impossible for non-centrist forces to obtain real influence.
- Jens Nordvig
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My father was a very powerful influence, well, always, through our life. He taught us very much that... we were very lucky and that we should make a contribution to country, that we were fortunate to live in America.
- Jean Kennedy Smith
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
- Carl Maria von Weber
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Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.
- Moa Kikuchi
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But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
- Jerry Zucker
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Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.
- Bruce Rauner
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
- Hampton Sides
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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
- Jamie Foxx
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I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'
- Jose Gonzalez
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At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.
- Maurice Allais
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Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.
- Dustin Yellin
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A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.
- Heather Wilson
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The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.
- Adam Rickitt
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People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.
- Bill Burr
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I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.
- Gretchen Carlson
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Management always has a big influence on your success, no matter how good or how bad the business is itself.
- Li Lu
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Rush is one of the common denominators in our band as far as a band that everybody loves and grew up with and was a big influence.
- John Petrucci
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I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
- Joan Armatrading
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The influence I would hope to have is to create an environment where we're not singling Americans out - that we are creating opportunities for all Americans. Not saying, 'I'm going to funnel money into your city so that you're completely dependent on government.'
- Mia Love
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I don't care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as a positive influence, to let kids know we are regular people.
- Clyde Drexler
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
- Isaac Hayes
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I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
- Lasse Hallstrom
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My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.
- Paul Sabatier
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
- Tanya Tucker
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What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
- Jack Zipes
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I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.
- Richard M. DeVos
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The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
- Dominic Chianese
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
- Sally Hawkins
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My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
- Wiz Khalifa
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One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.
- Luis Walter Alvarez
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
- Brooks Adams
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I have never really sensed any of Miyazaki's artistic influence on Ando. If there is an influence, it's more in his attitude to his work.
- Makoto Shinkai
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I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.
- Kevin Powers
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The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
- Deborah Harkness
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
- Buddy Rich
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In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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There is always competition for influence, but there are also opportunities for cooperation.
- Lee Hsien Loong
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Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
- Kris Kristofferson
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I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle.
- David Bryan
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
- Maeve Binchy
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
- Herodotus
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My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.
- Judith Viorst
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I feel like there's a witch hunt by some film sites and people that immediately disregard something if it shows any sort of influence.
- Max Winkler
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I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.
- Max Winkler
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I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.
- Black Thought
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Russia has taken advantage of its exalted status among right-wing extremists to expand its influence throughout Europe.
- Asha Rangappa
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I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
- John Ratzenberger
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When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.
- Shaun King
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
- J. M. G. Le Clezio
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Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
- Polly Toynbee
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
- William Styron
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
- Zhang Zhidong
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The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.
- Peter Gabriel
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I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
- Nick Jonas
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Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. between 1830 and 1860. After Reconstruction's defeat, their urgency of tone was replaced by the softer one of reminiscence.
- Darryl Pinckney
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I'm sure my mum was a huge influence on my wanting to be an actress: just seeing her doing it, seeing her love it, caring about it. Invest in something, take it seriously and be so wonderful.
- Hattie Morahan
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Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.
- Rashid al-Ghannushi
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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
- Maurice Strong
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I was raised in an intensely religious household and I think the influence shows through my music.
- Daniel Caesar
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Dad's influence naturally came into me, rather than trying to emulate every detail. His way of teaching me was to be sparse, and to be explosive when it needed to be.
- Jason Bonham
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The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.
- Robert Cailliau
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The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
- Tony Campolo
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Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
- Kenny G
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Certain things you learn through exposure. It's really the elements which make up any artist. You really learn by example. You learn by influence. And some people have a huge impact on you, and that's how you become the artist you are.
- Greg Lake
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There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood.
- Marie Rutkoski
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I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters, but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden's poems when I was younger, and the imagery really interested me.
- King Krule
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My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.
- King Krule
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The vote in the United Kingdom in favor of leaving the E.U. attested to the loss of elite influence.
- Richard N. Haass
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In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.
- Mary McFadden
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There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
- Ninette de Valois
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Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.
- Eric Whitacre
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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.
- Chester Brown
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As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to our viewers. We should serve as a model to them.
- Coco Martin
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Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
- Robert Harris
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Magicians start by looking for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of people's perception, so they can influence what people do without them even realizing it. Once you know how to push people's buttons, you can play them like a piano.
- Tristan Harris
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I did not grow up around films. So, I would say books have been my major influence.
- Divya Khosla Kumar
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I didn't have capital and influence in this industry. So I bought yellow pages and knocked each door of the company located at industrial parks.
- Zhou Qunfei
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