Passion Quotes
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I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.
Jeanette Winterson
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I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
Brooks Robinson
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I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.
David Beckham
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
Albert Camus
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We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.
Martin Heidegger
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Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.
Brendon Burchard
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The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.
Francois Pinault
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Play your part creatively in all the strugglesOf men of your time, therebyHelping, with the seriousness of study and the cheerfulness of knowledgeTo turn the struggle into common experience andJustice into a passion.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Paul Theroux
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
Austin Clarke
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade
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Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
William E. Simon
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My passion for snacking and search for a great tasting, better-for-you snack sparked my interest in creating what has become popchips.
Keith Belling
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In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.
James Wolcott
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I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.
Pierce Brosnan
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You know I’m really relentless in my pursuits. I work really hard you know. I was searching for that thing, you know, that one thing that was going to be my passion.
Josh Todd Buckcherry
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I am very thankful for this opportunity. It is a privilege and honor for me to follow in the footsteps of my father. Everywhere he's gone, he's been full of integrity and passion. That's what I want to carry on.
Tony Bennett
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After doing some research with my agent, we found out Klipsch was an official Colts partner, and they were based in Indianapolis, which only added to my esteem for the company. I also have a passion for design and technology that developed while I was at Stanford and appreciate the quality of Klipsch's speakers and headphones.
Andrew Luck
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
Samuel Johnson
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When selecting businesses, I first have to be enticed by the product or the industry they are in. Then I look for passion. If a company has these two qualifiers, I go for it.
Marcus Lemonis
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Don't speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don't tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God's children. Don't preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.
Cory Booker
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I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.
Demi Moore
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One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.
Marquis de Condorcet