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• People don’t care enough. They don’t get worked up enough. They don’t get angry enough. They don’t get passionate enough. I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Hate, People, Care

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 20005.

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• I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Play, Parent

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• You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

  Steve Garvey

  Successful, Goal, Relentless

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• I'm just happy to do projects I'm passionate about.

  Selena Gomez

  Projects

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• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  Ellie Goulding

  Brother, Guitar, Bass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Humorous, Ideas, Firsts

  "Occupy a Wing of the Democratic Party" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

  Katherine Heigl

  Careers, Important, Trying

  "Katherine Heigl admits she has image problem" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

  Carolina Herrera

  Mean, Age, Stereotype

  "Q&A With Designer Carolina Herrera". Interview with Gwen Marder, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2005.

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• I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Interview LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2010.

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• There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Shrinking, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Machines, Strikes

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• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

  Eric Hoffer

  God, Stars, Airplane

  www.nytimes.com. July 21, 1969.

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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Time, Heart, Fire

  "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire". Address delivered for Memorial Day at Keene, New Hampshire, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, people.virginia.edu. May 30, 1884.

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• There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

  T. D. Jakes

  Empowering, Generations, Next

  "Interview: T.D. Jakes on 35 Years of Ministry". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 14, 2012.

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• I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Girl, Role Models, Healthy

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• I try my best to eat healthy the majority of the time so that I feel good and have more energy. I am so passionate about eating healthily, I am actually certified in nutrition. I try my best to eat organic whenever possible, but it's important not to be too strict about it. Just do the best you can.

  Miranda Kerr

  Feel Good, Healthy, Important

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• I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

  Steve Kerr

  Motivational, Basketball, Heart

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• Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

  Alicia Keys

  People, Want, Sides

  "Alicia Keys Taps Mos Def Common For 'Inspired' 'Unplugged'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 19, 2005.

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• The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Funny, Book, Games

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• I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Art, Wish, Crowds

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• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Evil, Secret, Wickedness

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

  Amy Lee

  Emotional, Sometimes, Should

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• I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

  Annie Lennox

  Girl, Children, Issues

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• My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

  Hugh Leonard

  Mother, Father, Stubborn

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• Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

  Zachary Levi

  Sports, Fashion, Mean

  "Spike VGAs Interview: Meet Your Host, Zachary Levi". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. December 5, 2011.

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