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• I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

  Blake Bailey

  Want, Academic, Certain

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• When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating.

  Lee Clow

  People, Together, Energy

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• Celebrity and charity have been bedfellows for many years. The key is to try and choose practical, sound and effective ones. There is no shortage of solicitation for endorsement, so you have to really know what you're getting behind and be passionate about it. In this case, aside from just being a spokesperson, they're benefiting a form of expression that is dear to me, painting.

  Billy Zane

  Expression, Years, Keys

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Teenagers are passionate and they want music that speaks within their hearts. It's a big deal for students to listen to Christian music and talk about it at school. Music is a very exciting element of your life when you're love. I think it's huge.

  Mark Hall

  Christian, Teenager, Heart

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I'm passionate about coaching and being able to mentor young men in a lot of different ways. I think it's good to be able to do what you love to do. It's been in me since the beginning. I was telling my college coach what to do and he trusted me. When I got into the NBA, I started having conversations with coaches. Coach Gregg Popp(avich) brought a lot out in me. Coach Don Nelson gave me an incredible opportunity to spend some time with him and he molded me but at the same time allowed me to be myself.

  Avery Johnson

  College, Men, Thinking

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Long, Done, Film

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.

  Stephen Beal

  Teacher, Art, School

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• When I decided to take on acting as a career and a profession, I didn't know much about it. I knew that I was passionate about it. There was nothing else I could think of that I wanted to do and that's when I knew it was the right choice. It was also one of the scariest moments of my life.

  Drew Waters

  Thinking, Careers, Choices

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that I'm done and with efforts supporting it throughout this process, I'm armed and ready to go with some things that I'm really passionate about.

  Gabe Polsky

  Writing, Army, Effort

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about.

  Gabe Polsky

  Powerful, Thinking, Excited

  Source: collider.com

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• If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Games, Hymns

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8830, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

  George Washington

  Attachment, Feelings, Essentials

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Educational, Ignorance, Greatness

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

  Larry McMurtry

  Passion, People, Bunk

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

  Robert Redford

  Careers, Environment, My Family

  Academy Awards 1974 Oscar Annual, www.imdb.com.

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• I have always been a very passionate player and person. I often wear my emotions on my sleeve, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I hope that my teammates always respect that of me, as I trust they know my commitment to winning.?

  A. J. Burnett

  Commitment, Winning, Player

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• In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

  Mardy Grothe

  Passion, Roles, Affair

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• If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, People, Want

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Policemen, Wet

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• We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world.

  J.P. Moreland

  Christian, Mind, Needs

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• Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

  Stephen Fry

  Wealth, Fame, Wells

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• True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

  Holliday Grainger

  First Love, Journey, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Real, Mean, Passion

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• The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.

  George Lucas

  Responsibility, Issues, Psychological

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• Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Intellectual, Lord

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