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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas Carlyle

Person, Wait, Off

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
Sidney Poitier

Truth, Legal, Liars

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
John Keats

May, Almost, Spider

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change, Great, Down

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

History, Someone, Human

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.
Heidi Klum

Acting, Whole, Door

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
Shia LaBeouf

Study, Acting, Literature

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
Annie Lennox

Time, Mother, Woman

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden

Happy, Heavy, Mist

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert

Great, Learning, Rock

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
Alexander McQueen

Fashion, Big, Doctor

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Hate, Everyone, Doctor

I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
Vera Wang

Work, Woman, Give

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Sarah Palin

War, Enemy, Used

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes, Acting, Body

The media loves negative spin.
Chloe Sevigny

Negative, Media, Loves

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
Jack Nicklaus

Long, Ball, Hips

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
Sloane Crosley

End, Point, Actually

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
Murray Walker

Through, Wrong, Himself

I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.
Alison Sweeney

Love, Strength, Two

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Annie Dillard

Work, Keep, Belief

I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer.' Everything, I say 'I bet you.' I love to win.
Kellan Lutz

Love, Everything, Win

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
Ian Mcewan

Understand, Ways, Stories

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
Ella Maillart

Feeling, Around, Sense

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.
Mayer Hawthorne

Love, Strong, Feeling

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.
Michael Ignatieff

Night, Problem, Guys

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Alastair Campbell

Bad, Media, Seem

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
Emmylou Harris

Together, Older, Stuff

I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous.
Alessandra Ambrosio

Rock, Night, Pretty

I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.
Sarah Wayne Callies

Food, Learning, Thought

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