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• The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

  Winston Churchill

  Light, Land, Evil

  Winston Churchill (1969). “History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill”

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• I'm very inspired by past music.

  Adam Lambert

  Past, Very Inspired

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• I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Watches, Taste, Eclectic

  "Comic-Con: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, and Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER and Turning Gordon-Levitt Into Bruce Willis with Prosthetics". Press conference, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Creating, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Being True, Painter, Impressionism

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• Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

  Stefon Harris

  Moving, Home, Sleep

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• I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublimne and seek to liberate the soul of humans. Indeed his presentation is unique, his goal is great and his success in liberating each person from the mafia surrounding the soul is rewarding reading. The message that he had to deliver must reach everywhere. Ultimately salvation comes when one attains freedom from oneself. That, I believe, is the consummation which exposure to Osho may help.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Believe, Reading, Unique

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• I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive.

  Jon Jones

  Thinking, People, Offensive

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• Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

  Germaine Greer

  Life Changing, Book, Ordinary

  "Germaine Greer" by Laura Miller, www.salon.com. June 22, 1999.

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• The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Thinking, Tchaikovsky, Water

  "Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?". The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.

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• The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

  Thucydides

  War, Growth, Alarms

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Dad, Car, Skins

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• It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Please Me, Bored, Floating

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• I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

  Amy Lee

  School, Different, Realization

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• Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

  Alain de Botton

  Fighting, Order, Alcohol

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Enough, Happens

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.

  Tony Robbins

  Lying, People, Giving

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Artistic Life, Names, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

  Stefon Harris

  Micromanaging, Adamant, Allowing

  "Stefon Harris thinks creativity is overrated". Interview with Matthew Borlik, Michael J. West, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2009.

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• I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.

  Kurt Sutter

  Writing, Focus, Guy

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• I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

  Robbie Robertson

  Records, Feels, Expected

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• Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Men, History

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”

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• Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cities, Done

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.161

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• The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.

  William Golding

  Men, Artist, Two

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.220, Penguin

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• 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

  Needs, Quests, Reason

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.31, HMH

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