"I'm very inspired by a lot of things from the past, from Cher to Diana Ross."
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"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse."
"I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired."
"I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them."
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
"I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music."
"Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us."
"I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education."
"I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years."
"Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics."
"People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things."
"Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable."
"That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?"
"He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope."
"You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired."
"Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own."
"I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired."