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Light Quotes
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
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"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
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"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it."
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"By lighting another's candle you brighten your own."
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"They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade."
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"Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results."
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"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
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"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
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"If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?"
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"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."
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"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl."
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"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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"I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer."
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"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
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"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
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"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
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"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
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"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
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"When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done."
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"It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light."
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"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
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"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."
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"Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement."
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
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"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise."
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"I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'"
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"When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those."
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
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"We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us."
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"We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice."
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"If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light."
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