Inspired Quotes - Page 22

• When it comes to fashion, I'm just inspired by anyone who has their own flair or piece on anything. I love originality. I love when people bring some bold and don't do what's been done or being done. I don't think I have anyone in particular. Just anyone who's original really inspires me.

  Blake Michael

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm inspired by people like Nelson Mandela. Can you imagine - you know how racist America was back then - imagine how racism was in South Africa when he had to stand up and say what he had to say. That's bravery beyond comprehension.

  Nas

  America, Racism, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Thinking, Dancing

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Community, Awareness

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.19, Columbia University Press

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• Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

  Todd Haynes

  Memories, Imagination, Unlocking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2007.

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• A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Book, Sheep

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• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

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• 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

  Hero, Kids, People

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• I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

  Ronnie Wood

  School, Fans, Bigs

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• If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Support, Looks

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• The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

  Elmer Kelton

  Memories, Endurance, Events

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• I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

  Scott Aukerman

  Stars, Writing, Six

  "Comedy Bang Bang's Scott Aukerman talks about turning his podcast into a strange, funny TV show". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

  Michael Franks

  Years, Musician, Enthusiasm

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• I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

  Nick Flynn

  Deeper, My Friends, Ifs

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• As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

  Janet Echelman

  Children, Kids, Clothes

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• I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, Wall, Connections

  "Slumdog professor". Interview with Lucy Tobin, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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• I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

  Danny Brown

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Cowboy, Mind, Generations

  "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Amanda Davis has a wicked and inspired imagination.

  Brady Udall

  Imagination, Wicked, Amanda

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• I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

  Charles Jencks

  Art, Car, Perfect

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• A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Believe, Reality, Denial

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1922). “Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow”

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• All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Character, Stories, Emotion

  "My Favorite Children’s Books" by Cynthia Voigt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Because the Internets there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words.

  King Krule

  Men, Video, Legends

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• When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

  J. A. Jance

  Writing, Stopping, Want

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• Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

  Janine Benyus

  People, Toxic, Spiders

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