Sparks Quotes - Page 19

• Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Make You Think, Culture

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Selfish, Dirty

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• I'm hoping my play opens up conversations, I hope it makes people question textbooks, I hope it makes #OscarsSoWhite and #HollywoodSoWhite question things. I hope my play sparks conversation between Latin kids and Latin parents and people start doing their own due diligence as well, I think it's everyone's responsibility.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, Kids, Responsibility

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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• I kept all of my tickets from the New Kids concerts and stuff - wristband, ticket, pass. Why? They are all in a drawer. I never look at it, but I still keep it. It sparks joy, that is why. It sparks joy. That is fine!

  Andrea Barber

  Kids, Joy, Stuff

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

  Jon Stewart

  Imagination, Ships, Shipwreck

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• The racing is no different if it is day or night except you see the lights and the sparks. You run the race the same. The day or night doesn't really affect the race.

  Ken Schrader

  Running, Night, Light

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• It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Jobs, Motivation, Fire

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• It's often said that I choose subjects that are sensational! I choose to film subjects that spark difficult conversations and make people uncomfortable. Change only comes about when people are forced to discuss an issue, and that's what I hope my films do.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, People, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Intuition, Connections

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman'". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.

  Amber Heard

  Cute, Beautiful, Sexy

  "The Rum Diary - Amber Heard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Love, God, Flames

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• If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

  Daniel Webster

  Religious, Religion, Liberty

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “The Works of Daniel Webster ...”, p.75

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• When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

  James Montgomery

  Eye, Dark, Light

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.323

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• Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.

  Jack Zipes

  Girl, Children, Loss

  Jack Zipes (2011). “The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films”, p.116, Routledge

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• Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.

  Isabel Allende

  Love Is, Way, Ends

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• Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Hard Work, Passion

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• Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Truth Is, Divine

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• It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Ideas, Knows

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• We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Matter, Way, Underestimate

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• Love stories always seem to be a spark.

  Alyson Richman

  Stories, Love Story, Seems

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• A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

  Frank Barron

  Men, Creative, Individual

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• I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

  Stephen King

  Life Is Short, Haste Makes Waste, Years

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• For Georgina Sparks, love is always a battlefield.

  Kristen Bell

  Love Is, Battlefields

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• The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teaching, Ideas, Numbers

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Ideas, Together, Flash

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