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• I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.

  Katy Perry

  Positive, Music, Song

  "Katy Perry 'Lets the Light in' on Prism" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  War, Believe, Iraq

  "Iranian President Ahmadinejad Denies the Holocaust and Warns Europeans of the Zionists: They Cling Like Ticks". www.memri.org. September 18, 2009.

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• I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

  Will Smith

  Israel, Soldier, Want

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• Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

  Pete Townshend

  New York, Mean, Men

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• The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

  Richard Rorty

  Beauty, Writing, Long

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Desire, Territory

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

  Jason Statham

  Movie, Busy, Jet

  Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

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• 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, Levels

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• People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

  James Young

  Music, People, Great Things

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• I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

  Mike Thompson

  Nature, Artist, Perception

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• We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Hero, Opportunity, Men

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• So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

  George J. Mitchell

  Relationship, Sports, Brother

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• There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.

  Frederic Chopin

  Strong, Voice, Piano

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• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Inspiration, Sight, Documentation

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• My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Age, Brutality

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Wilderness (Short Story)”, p.30, Bantam

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• I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Men, Class

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Powerful, Reality

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• Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Tyrants, Common, Virtue

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.29

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• In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Character, Race, Evil

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis of race in order to foster some current notion of equality.... In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.

  Clarence Thomas

  Believe, Equality, Race

  Adarand v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 1995.

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• The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

  Denton Cooley

  Real, Simple, Men

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Dream, Reality, Civilization

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “Footsteps”, Penguin Group USA

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• . . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Humble, Simple

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

  Kit Williams

  Dog, Moon, Rabbits

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