Eric Whitacre Quotes
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.
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It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.
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I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.
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So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.
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Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
