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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Philosophy, Food, Emotional

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I am genuine, fun and passionate.

  Erin Heatherton

  Fun, Genuine

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• I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Football, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.

  Zoe Saldana

  Fighting, Views, Ideas

  Source: birthmoviesdeath.com

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• I think the people who work with me are people who love style themselves. I'm leaving the office and they're still working. They're passionate.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Office, People

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• I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.

  Jared Leto

  Talking, Mouths, Want

  "New Again: Jared Leto". Interview with Allyson Shiffman and David A. Keeps, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 29, 2013.

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• Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

  Martha Ostenso

  Idols, Religion, Thorns

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• I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.

  Paula Abdul

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• I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.

  Megan Fox

  Strong, Feelings, Needs

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• Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.

  La'el Collins

  Football, Growing Up, Hard Work

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Names, Design

  "Ellen DeGeneres is in the house". Interview with Mary Cadden, www.usatoday.com. January 25, 2015.

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• Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

  Agnes Repplier

  Loyalty, Passionate Desire, Belief

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Longing, Mysticism

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

  Freya Stark

  Passion, Soul, Expenses

  Freya Stark (1954). “Ionia: A Quest”, London : J. Murray

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• All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

  Freya Stark

  Humility, Greatness, Style

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.84, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I'm passionate about the game of football.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Football, Games, Nfl

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• I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

  Larry Wilmore

  Believe, Fall, Giving

  "Larry Wilmore on Race, Politics, and Mormonism". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Independent, Intelligent, Mba

  "Yvon Chouinard on Entrepreneurship". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Why I enjoyed doing Iron Man because it opened me up to this new world where fans are so passionate.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Men, Iron, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

  John Tillotson

  Proud, Christ, Meek

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.70

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• Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Anger, Wish, Different

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

  Ethel Smyth

  Believe, Talent, Interest

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Men, Blood, Making Love

  Phyllis Chesler, Emily Jane Goodman (1976). “Women, money & power”, William Morrow & Co

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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