Inspired Quotes - Page 16

• The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Dedication, Humanity, Selfless

  Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 5”, p.124, M A Center

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• To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Knows, Related, This Day

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.164, Northwestern University Press

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• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Political, Reform, Movement

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• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

  Greg Bear

  Friendship, Long, Inspire

  "Sci-fi scribes on Ray Bradbury: 'Storyteller, showman and alchemist'" by John Joseph Adams, www.wired.com. June 06, 2012.

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• I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.

  Wes Borland

  Artist, Trying, Different

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• I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Creative, Want, Chance

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

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• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Shapes, Something New, Ready

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• Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

  Charlie Crist

  Party, Men, Optimism

  Charlie Crist's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

  Artur Davis

  Sweet, Blessed, Dark

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• What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

  James Dashner

  Stories, Way, One Way

  "Meet The Maze Runner Author James Dashner". Interview with Cosmogirl, www.seventeen.com. January 20, 2011.

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• If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Escaping, Film, Designer

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

  Evel Knievel

  Inspirational, Kids, Saws

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• My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Writing, Process

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• I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Country, Teaching, Oath Of Office

  "Tulsi Gabbard, First Hindu In Congress, Uses Bhagavad Gita At Swearing-In" By Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2013.

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• If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

  Ben Harper

  Play, Inspire, Ifs

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• I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

  Daryl Hall

  Mother, Teacher, Memories

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• It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Growing Up, Book, Reading

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

  Dree Hemingway

  Growing Up, Thinking, Doors

  "Dree Hemingway on 'Starlet,' Porn and Her Famous Great-Grandfather, Ernest". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2012.

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• When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Lying, Writing, Europe

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• In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Party, Views, Stupidity

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• It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.

  Daryn Kagan

  Thinking, Creating, Space

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• I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.

  Logan Lerman

  People, Firsts, Serious

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• My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a clear idea of what inspires you, dedicate your energies to its pursuit and there is no knowing what you can achieve, particularly if others are inspired by your dream and offer their help.

  Pete Goss

  Dream, Ideas, Knowing

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• My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

  Dylan Lauren

  Girl, Names, Parent

  "Dylan Lauren: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me". www.usmagazine.com. May 01, 2013.

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