"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine."
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"The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth."
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"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results."
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"I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb."
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"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."
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"In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid."
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"Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired."
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"Be inspired but not proud."
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"The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel."
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"Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people."
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"When you say yes to life, you attract divine guidance. When you're inspired, you're collaborating with fate. Everything starts working for you."
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"These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost."
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"All great men are partially inspired."
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"I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless."
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"Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired."
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"[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from."
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"The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful."
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"I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence."
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"I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past."
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"When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it."
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