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Passion Quotes
"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well."
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"Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be."
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"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
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"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
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"I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real."
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
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"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man."
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"Far away soul in a dreamy stateForgotten slumber seemingly latePure rhythmic love now rising higherUnclad passion our only attire."
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"So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused."
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"To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air."
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"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."
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"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."
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"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind."
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"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."
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"Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know."
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"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors."
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"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."
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"Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many."
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"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."
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"My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special."
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"Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios."
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"I had hooked up my iPod to the speakers. The air was filled with the raw, sexy purr of Etta James. "The thing that's great about the blues," I told Luke, pausing to sip from my glass of wine, "is that it's about feeling, loving, wanting without the brakes on. No one's brave enough to live that way. Except maybe musicians."
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"Heart language is logic set on fire."
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"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."
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"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
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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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"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."
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"That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the spaces of the loft that the air was all driven away. The lovers suffocated, but when the sacristan opened the tiny door the words tumbled him over in their desire to be free, and were seen flying across the city in the shape of doves."
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"We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses."
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