Spotlight Quotes - Page 6

• The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. [Bernie] Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.

  Ben Wikler

  Shine On, Office, Shining

  "What Should Bernie Sanders Do Next?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2016.

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• I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.

  Muhammad Ali

  Running, Night, Talking

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

  Arielle Ford

  Art, Museums, Shining

  "Nobody's Perfect: How to Reclaim the Joy in Your Relationship". Interview with Laurie Sue Brockway, www.everydayhealth.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.

  Serinda Swan

  Growing Up, Order, Issues

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• Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you.

  Elan Lee

  Book, Shine On, Tv Shows

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• There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Littles, Facts

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

  Terry Gross

  President, Want, Clinton

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When pressure's on and when the spotlight's on, I feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments.

  Danica Patrick

  Pressure, Becoming, Moments

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• We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Numbers, People

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• It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.

  Jeremy Lin

  People, Needs, Looks

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

  Kristen Stewart

  Sunshine, Hard Times, People

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• If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

  Thom Yorke

  Media, Want, Ifs

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• I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

  Justin Vernon

  Country, Thinking, Events

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

  Kay Yow

  Mind, Platforms

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• Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that has guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.

  Antony Flew

  Philosophical, Law, Three

  "One Flew out of the atheists’ nest" by William West, www.mercatornet.com. April 1, 2009.

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• People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, People, Creative

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• She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.

  Jack Kerouac

  Heart, Men, Vegas

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.89, Penguin

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• When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

  Bruce Sutter

  Baseball, Player, Teammate

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• The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

  Michael Musto

  Lying, Differences, Pedestal

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• It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Men, Office

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• A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Kissing, Clouds, Years

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.44, Zondervan

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• You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.

  Frank Sinatra

  Good Night, Steps, Balls

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• I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Artist, Helping Others, Soul

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• I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

  Jason Gann

  Couple, Media, Pet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

  Juliana Hatfield

  Dream, Moving, Happens

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