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• If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Hands, Wish

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.101, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. That work was the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns had to our parents' generations, it left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, everything that any of us does is somehow directly or indirectly affected by the experience of seeing those first three films.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Adventure

  "J.J.Abrams & Star Wars: interview to the master of storytelling". Pirelli Interview, www.pirelli.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Artist, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes.

  Michael Franti

  Love, Positive, Thankful

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• Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

  Pete Cashmore

  Successful, Connections, Looks

  "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun" by Pete Cashmore, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Self Esteem, Influential Person, Persons

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• Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

  Freya Stark

  Fairness, Unfair, Used

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• No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  "Prospects for Women in Writing" (speech), Portland, Me., Sept. 1986

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• I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Grandmother, Knowing, People

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

  Maisie Williams

  People

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Star Maisie Williams Is Fed Up With Adults Who Underestimate Teens" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2015.

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• Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Sibling, Kids

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• Make a list of 200 prestigious, influential, and powerful people with whom you want to work, play, grow and do business.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Powerful, Play, People

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• I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.

  Colin Callender

  Moving, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: deadline.com

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• The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

  Andrew W.K.

  Piano, Lessons, Piano Lesson

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential

  William M. Gray

  Littles, Temperature, Kind

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• I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.

  Michael W. Smith

  Land, Historical, Battle

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• I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, Looks, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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