Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch -
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.
Caleb Landry Jones -
I've found that musical theater is my passion.
Samantha Barks -
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan -
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.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
Harold Hamm -
I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
Gad Elmaleh -
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.
Valentino Rossi -
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.
Olivia Colman -
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.
Walter Lippmann -
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
Candace Bushnell -
I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
Jack Nicklaus -
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger -
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.
Abhishek Bachchan -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Nat Wolff
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Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It's the number one killer of juvenile sea turtles in Mexico. Two good sustainable seafood guides that I'd recommend are from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. -
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.
Dee Rees -
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding -
I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
Dan Fogelberg -
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
Thomas Hobbes