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• Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Apology, Emotion, Inspired

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• There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Passion, Two, People

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• I'm very passionate about what I do.

  Kevyn Aucoin

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• I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

  Eric Bana

  Home, Love Life, Australia

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

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• The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

  Rob Bell

  Stories, Fundamentals, World

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• My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Mother, Divorce, Parent

  Interview with Nick Duerden, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Feelings, Way

  "'I saw my life going down a drain'". Interview with lex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2008.

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• When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Order, Goal, Giving

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• She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

  Dan Brown

  Sacred Feminine, Sacred, Feminine

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• I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

  Jeb Bush

  People, Empowering, Parent

  "A Q&A With Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush". Interview with John O'Connor, stateimpact.npr.org. June 11, 2012.

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• It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

  Sophia Bush

  Secret, Meals, Mets

  "To Reward Efficiency, Let’s Reward Efficiency" by Sophia Bush, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.

  Sophia Bush

  Self Confidence, Men, People

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• Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Spring, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

  Herman Cain

  Motivational, Running, Differences

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• We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

  David Cameron

  Character, Independent, Emotional

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• I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

  Steve Case

  Students, Economy, Outstanding

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• I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Rough Edges, Interesting, Dimensions

  "This much I know: Jarvis Cocker". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

  Simon Cowell

  Country, People, Forgive Me

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• It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

  Courteney Cox

  People, Freak, Call Me

  "A Revealing Sit-down With Courteney Cox". Interview with Ann Oldenburg, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 09, 2003.

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• I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.

  Cindy Crawford

  Beautiful, Real, Thinking

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• I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

  Richard Dawkins

  Said, Explaining

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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• I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.

  Mos Def

  People, Focus, Aim

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

  Beth Ditto

  Friendship, Fun, Book

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• I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

  Marguerite Duras

  Literature, Journalism, Journalist

  "Practicalities (Walesa's Wife)". Book by Marguerite Duras, 1990.

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• We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and arational.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Reflection, Self

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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