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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
I've actually carried the Olympic torch through Stoke-on-Trent.
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
You've got to have new stars and you need people to pass the torch to build those stars.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
I really do like seeing Bobby Lashley get the torch and exactly seeing what he can do with it.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.
We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.
I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.
I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
This race is not about me trying to beat John Lewis. It is about carrying the torch and picking up the fight.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.
I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.
In my opinion, Slash is probably one of the last of the iconic guitar players carrying the torch of what it's really all about.
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the duvet. That love of reading stayed with me.
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
I'm a really big fan of Andy McKee - I think he's an amazing acoustic guitar player, and he's taken the torch from where Michael Hedges left off.
To be looked up to as one of the Americans that's supposed to carry the torch, go to the major championships and get medals, that's a huge honour.
We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'
I'm proud to carry that torch and be like, 'I'm gay! I'm black! Hang your dreams on me. Hang your hopes on me. I'll carry them to the best of my ability.'
I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.
As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.
I had to get to the point where I just had to embrace carrying the torch for the traditional girls out there. I love representing the traditional black woman.
To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
I was a torch carrier in the 2012 Paralympics and every time I thought 'I can't do this' I would look at the blade runners and the athletes and wheelchairs think, okay, I can run.
I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.
The torch needs to be held by somebody that's great. Because champions are made in the dark, baby. We don't need the lights and the spotlight. That stuff is for everybody else, man.