Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.
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Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.
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You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
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When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
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Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.
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You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
