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Inspirational Quotes
"My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight."
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"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
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"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."
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"Breathing dreams like air."
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"One could make a nice link between imagination and spirit. To make that link, all we need is some inspiration. Essentially, imagination has the innate potential to compel or inspire and to set in motion causation. That's why it exists."
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"It's true, life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."
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"Tighten your seat belt and enjoy the ride of life."
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"May the New Year bring you new grace, new gladness and new glory."
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"We grow from our dreams."
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"It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are."
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"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."
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"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."
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"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
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"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"
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"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
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"Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."
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"I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration."
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"I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up."
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"Perhaps the gift you seek already resides within you awaiting the day you choose to unwrap it."
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"That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it."
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"When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You feel love when you feel good and you want to give that love to everyone you meet. As you go along, you find that most others want what you have and they are usually very willing students, wanting to learn what you already learned so long ago."
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"She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly."
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"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day."
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"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."
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"Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration."
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"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
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"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language."
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"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
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"Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious."
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"For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration."
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
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"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."
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"It may be those who do most, dream most."
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"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
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"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
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"Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."
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"Be sure to bend but never break."
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"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
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"The more you've struggled, the more inspiring your story will be when you come out the other side. Do not give up. Today's struggle brings tomorrow's wisdom."
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"Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable."
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"Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke."
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"Times of adversity are golden moments."
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"We can escape any hardship with hope in our heart."
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"The greatest sacred-adventure is the pursuit of dreams."
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"The treasure of life, learning."
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"You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record."
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"Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now."
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"One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration."
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