Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do."
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Passionate
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Charley Harper
Artist
"A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo."
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am."
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"Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows."
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"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
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"Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal."
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"When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?"
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."
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"isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?"
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"Be passionate about something and lean to that strength."
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"I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life."
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"Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything."
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"Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly."
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"Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?"
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"If you are passionate, be passionate about the highest, the most wonderful, and the most beautiful. Be passionate about this entire creation for everything is so beautiful."
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."
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"You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.""
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"I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it."
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"Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur."
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"If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth."
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"And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is."
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"I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork."
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"The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid."
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