Inspired Quotes

• I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • History
  • Age
  • Free

• It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Character

• In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Dad
  • Listening
  • Inspired

• Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

  

  Ellen Hopkins
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Christmas

• I watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Great
  • Training
  • Try

• Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Vulnerability

• Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Respect
  • Musician

• The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Model
  • Inspired

• One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mine
  • Juice
  • Mixed

• I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Words
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Fear
  • Waiting
  • Write

• I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Book
  • Power

• I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Inspired

• When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

  

  Enric Sala
  • People
  • Time
  • Hero

• I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Inspired

• I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• That's actually about my dad's ex-wife believe it or not!. Actually a lot of the stuff that's in that song actually happened, like my laundry being thrown out, and stuff like that. So that was inspired by my dad's ex-wife.

  

  Chris Barron Spin Doctors
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Stuff

• When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

  

  Didi Conn
  • School
  • Book
  • Fun

• I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Old
  • Hip Hop

• In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Car
  • Design
  • Inspired

• I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Inspired

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