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• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

  Yuri Milner

  Momentum, Internet, Social

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• Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Long, People, Television

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• Be the most enthusiastic person you know.

  John C. Maxwell

  Stay Positive, Persons, Knows

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• Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

  Max Stirner

  Looks, Libertarian, Causes

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.

  Jim Valvano

  Dream, Laughter, Hard Work

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, Enthusiasm, Modern

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

  Dale Carnegie

  Goal, Inspire, Energy

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• I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

  Robert Osborne

  Awards, Good Movie, Oscars

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• All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.

  Steve Irwin

  Passionate, Life Is, Wonderful

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• An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 28, 2010

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Enthusiasm For Life, Might

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• Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

  Renzo Novatore

  Flames, Moral, Prison

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• I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

  Dick Pound

  Winter, Crowds, Olympics

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• Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I’m using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.

  Cassandra King

  Appreciation, Book, Passion

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• We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

  David Lynch

  Our World, Goal, Creative

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• Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, School

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• The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Country, Tone, Idiot

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Patriotic, Storm

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Past, Race, Ideas

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 393, 1955.

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• I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1972). “Neill! Neill! Orange peel!: An autobiography”, Hart Associates

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• Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

  Jonathan Demme

  Mean, Fiction, Littles

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

  Jonathan Demme

  Fiction, Documentaries, Film

  "Jonathan Demme Says 'Zeitoun' Still Need Financing, Talks Adapting Stephen King’s '11/22/63'" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

  Ryan Adams

  Mistake, Men, Stuff

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

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• Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

  Christina Romer

  Details, Voters, Honest

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• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  Michael Sims

  School, Library, Bookstores

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