Inspired Quotes - Page 17

• As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

  Kelly Reilly

  Character, Interesting, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

  Aly Raisman

  Team, Gymnastics, Mind

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• I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

  James Rollins

  Inspiration, Reading, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  Otis Rush

  Guitar, Play, Water

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• I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

  Ali Smith

  Blessed, Good Friend, Two

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• Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Taken, Justice, Decision

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Dream, Clever, Writing

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• I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

  Jessica Lynch

  Troops, Stories, Said

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

  Stan Sakai

  Play, Stories, Done

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• Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Brilliant, Wonderful, Keynes

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• I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.

  Kate Voegele

  Song, Art, Kings

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• If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

  Alexander Wang

  Pieces, Audience, Realising

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Learning, Keys, Control Myself

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• You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

  Peter Welch

  Fighting, Thinking, Winning

  "Congressman Welch: We in Congress have to look in the mirror". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• When in love or inspired,
  An eternal kiss from the divine
  Awaits us all.

  Scott Hastie

  Kissing, Divine, Eternal

  Scott Hastie, “When In Love”

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• It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

  George Gershwin

  Writing, Blue, Three

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• I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

  Justin Trudeau

  People, Way, Legacy

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• Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

  Paul Delaroche

  Education, Kind, Endure

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• History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.

  T. M. Scanlon

  Country, Volunteer, Judging

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• Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

  Tom Folsom

  Crazy, Mafia, Village

  "Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

  Ben Savage

  Want, Sometimes

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• For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.

  Victoria Legrand

  Beautiful, Fun, Thinking

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• Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

  Maynard Webb

  Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler (2013). “Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship”, p.75, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  Thinking, Would Be, Scripts

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