"For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me."

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Source : Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

Steve Rasnic Tem

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“The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values.”
“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
“Everything in the world has a spirit which is released by its sound.”
“It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.”
“I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.”
“I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.”
“The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.”

Source : "Victor Conte on Marion Jones' 'Poor Choices'". ABC News, abcnews.go.com. January 11, 2008.
“Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.”

Source : FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Oct 11, 2012

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