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• I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist.

  Subb-an

  Kings, Mixing, Digital

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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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• I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

  Donald Miller

  Writing, Discipline, Different

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• When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

  Lisel Mueller

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

  St. Vincent

  Writing, Play, People

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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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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• There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

  Veronica Roth

  Silly, Fall, Perfect

  "Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". Los Angeles Times Interview, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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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’ve always been very inspired by fashion. I’ve always been a big fan of style.

  L'Wren Scott

  Fashion, Style, Fans

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• If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Song, People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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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 the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

  Janelle Monae

  Epic, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "Janelle Monae Talks New CoverGirl Gig, Signature Style And Being Fearlessly Beautiful". Interview with Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Blank paper has always inspired me.

  Daniel Handler

  Paper, Blank Paper, Blank

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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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• The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

  Bhagat Singh

  Country, Dawn, Cost

  "Trials of Independence" by B. R. Agarwala, National Book Trust, India, (p. 128), 1991.

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• These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brave, Unions, Communist

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Pay, Bills, Today

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• A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

  Robert Breault

  Successful, Artist, Muse

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• Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiration, Heart, Light

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• L.I.F.E. = Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Everyday, Fulfilled

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 13, 2013

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• Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Fire, Vanity

  1595 John of Gaunt, to Richard. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.31-4.

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• for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

  Plato

  Light, Poetry, Able

  Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

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• You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

  May Sarton

  Inspiration, Feelings, Reason

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