Eric Whitacre Quotes
For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
Eric Whitacre
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
Gary Wright
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I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.
Laura Bush
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
Ralph Fiennes
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
Zooey Deschanel
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
Salman Rushdie
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
Barry Lopez
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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.
Warren Zevon
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History breaks down in images not into stories.
Walter Benjamin
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I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is-an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate.
Edward R. Murrow
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Those who use this countries great tradition of freedom of speech should not seek to deny that same freedom to others, especially to those who, like Mr Powell, spent their war years in distinguished service in the Forces.
Margaret Thatcher
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Should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
Bob Feller
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Kids are so shrewd.
Maurice Sendak
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I had to practise each religion for a time - Hinduism, Islam, Christianity. Furthermore, I followed the paths of the Saktas, Vaishnavas, and Vedantists. I realized that there is only one God toward whom all are travelling; but the paths are different.
Ramakrishna
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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
William Shakespeare
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Rumi
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When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.
Caleb Followill
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For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
Eric Whitacre
