"I don't think the role of the critic has changed very much. In the most positive sense, the music critic is one who helps the public navigate what's out there, especially in bringing attention to things they otherwise wouldn't hear about, or to provide a new window into something familiar."

-- Michael Hersch

#Thinking Quotes #Roles Quotes #Attention Quotes

“In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.”

Source : "Michael Phelps: 'I consider myself normal'" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2012.
“She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't just her PJs on the bed anymore. Lucas, eyes wide, sat on the foot of her bed, about four feet from where she stood completely naked. She squealed. He laughed. She dashed for the towel. Once she had it around her, she glared from a still grinning Lucas to the door. "I'm killing Della!" He laughed again. "I'm afraid I might have to protect her for this one.”
“After a few years of the addiction controlling my online life, and beginning to affect my life offline as well - meeting men and becoming physically involved with them - whether I believed in God or not, to me was moot. Anything that had as much control over my life as this addiction did could not be healthy.”

Source : "Secrets, Lies, & Porn in the Church: A Q&A with “Permission to Speak Freely” Author Anne Jackson". Interview with Flunking Sainthood, www.beliefnet.com. September 2010.
“The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.”
“What is man but his passion?”
“No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.”

Source : "TB Joshua Rejects Court’s Findings; Insists Building Collapse a ‘Sabotage’". citifmonline.com. July 10, 2015.
“God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.”
“Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.”

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