The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.
You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
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.
I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.
I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.
The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.
