5,550 Quotes About Inspiring

  • Author Ani DiFranco
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    My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

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  • Author Ann Druyan
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    What Carl used to say is, 'When you're in love, you want to tell the world,' ... He wanted to communicate that the nature of the universe is so thrilling and inspiring and spiritually uplifting.

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  • Author Annie Dillard
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    Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.

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  • Author Claude Debussy
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    Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

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  • Author Daniel Day-Lewis
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    When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

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  • Author Ellen DeGeneres
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    I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

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