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Audiobook Narrator Inspirational Quotes (652)

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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Robin Williams
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Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
Toni Morrison
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
Toni Morrison
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What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?
Robin Williams
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I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.
Toni Morrison
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It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
Toni Morrison
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It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
Philip Pullman
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So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Michael York
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If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
Robin Williams
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A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].
Robin Williams
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With a group of people, a troupe of actors in the theater, you go out on tour, and you're like a traveling circus. It's very sociable, and there's a real community, and it's very intense, and then you may never see them again. That was very appealing. I mean, it wasn't consciously appealing, but I think a lot of actors like that.
Rachel Weisz
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Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
Toni Morrison
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Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
Philip Pullman
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I find Hollywood really toxic.
Rachel Weisz
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Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
Robin Williams
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Toni Morrison
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The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!
Robin Williams
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Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.
Robin Williams
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My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.
Robin Williams
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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Toni Morrison
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I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.
Robin Williams
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And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
Toni Morrison
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Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
Robin Williams
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