Spotlight Quotes - Page 4

• I want to shine a spotlight on a new generation of women, who are creating, funding and managing some of the hottest companies in tech today. But I wanted to do more than share their professional stories. I wanted to share their personal journeys, too.

  Willow Bay

  Journey, Creating, Shining

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The controversy over Russian gas deliveries shines a glaring spotlight on the risks involved in this industry. In an energy NATO, EU and NATO member states would guarantee one another assistance in obtaining energy, in any form, but without violence. Of course, we need an additional pipeline system for this purpose.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Shining, Risk, Pipeline

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.

  Sylvia Plath

  Unique, Moon, Light

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.54, Anchor

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• Remember this, classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Tired, Perfect, Waiting

  "Fall 2012 Hair Trends" by Tabatha Coffey, www.elle.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Cowboy, Mind, Generations

  "Garrett Hedlund Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

  Michael Josephson

  Attitude, Taken, Character

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• Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, History, Done

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• I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.people.com

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• Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Stage, Decor

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• Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all!

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Winning, Healthy

  "Hugh Hefner Says Ex Holly Madison Has 'Chosen to Rewrite History to Stay in the Spotlight'" by Sierra Marquina, www.usmagazine.com. June 21, 2015.

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• If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year. I had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can’t wait to be back!

  Chrissy Teigen

  Music, Fun, Artist

  "Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen to Host 2015 Billboard Music Awards" by Joe Lynch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.

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• Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

  Tim Bevan

  Film, Great Things, Opening

  Source: deadline.com

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• The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Light, House

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 104, 1983.

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• There's that old cliché which has a lot of basis in truth, that all music journalists are failed rock stars. They all harbour the inner feeling they should be up under the spotlight and the microphone is there for them.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Stars, Rocks, Feelings

  Source: www.elsewhere.co.nz

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• We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Males, Able, Way

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• Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.

  Teddy Thompson

  Stones, Succeed, Rolling

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• With a group of people, it's easer to say, I want this, this and this. It's different with the soloists, because they are the ones who will be in the spotlight. You can't force an interpretation on them. With soloists, it's all about diplomacy.

  Laurence Equilbey

  People, Groups, Different

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

  Hope Solo

  People, Want, Life Is

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• I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Littles

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• Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Sports, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Blessing, Ideas, Luxury

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

  April Bowlby

  Ballerina, Wanted, Speaking In Public

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Character, Literature

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Reality, Opaque, Hiding

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