"This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have."

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Source : "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

Emily Haines

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“I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.”
“If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.”
“I'm known for changing halfway through the day if my mood swings.”
“The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.”
“Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.”
“Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.”

Source : "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.
“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”

Source : Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books
“An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.”

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