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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.
Robert B. Laughlin

Small, Chemistry, Taught

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
Samuel West

Done, Before, Play

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.
Angela Ruggiero

Succeed, Getting, Point

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.
Shawn Wayans

Before, Pay, Carrying

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
Peter Stuyvesant

Peace, War, Blessed

I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.
Naoto Kan

Party, Democratic, Carry

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.
William Hamilton

Truth, Shines, Shook

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.
Whitney Cummings

Career, Remember, Enough

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.
Alberto Tomba

Waiting, Tired, Win

The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
Don Cornelius

Time, After, Soul

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
Randy Savage

Good, Hate, Old

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
Kelly Millar

Age, History, Down

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Adolf Hitler

War, Nothing, Wish

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
Adolf Hitler

Great, Human, Word

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