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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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• 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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• A lot of people have the misconception that modeling is a glamourous job, and it can be. But ultimately if you don’t like to stay quiet, and let people tell you what to do, and fuss on you… it may not be the right fit. If you decide it’s something you’re really passionate about though, go for it!

  Kelly Cutrone

  Jobs, People, May

  "Countdown to ANTM Cycle 20 + Interview With Kelly Cutrone". Interview with Niyah Jackson, inexpensivechic.wordpress.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I am genuine, fun and passionate.

  Erin Heatherton

  Fun, Genuine

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• Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

  Elinor Glyn

  Jealousy, Parent, Prudence

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.178, eBookIt.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Dream, Confusion, Stories

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, Believe, Order

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.

  Misha Collins

  Running, Ideas, Imagination

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• If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, People, Survivor

  "Small Business Marketing Resources". Experian Interview, www.experian.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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• You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Creative, Doe

  Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

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• Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

  Demi Lovato

  Healthy, Skins, Lines

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

  David Rockefeller

  Country, Children, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Don't ever speak publicly about anything that you're not passionate about and that you don't actually believe you have something truly unique about it to deliver.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Unique, Speak

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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 never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.

  Megan Griffiths

  Strong, Men, Differences

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• To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it's hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.

  Ronda Rousey

  Eye, Passion, Blood

  Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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