Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• I liked to play dress-up.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Up
  • Play
  • Liked

• I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Love
  • Done

• Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.

  

  Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Know
  • Color
  • Voice

• My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • American
  • Positive
  • Legal

• Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Terrible
  • Price
  • Economics

• I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Sometimes
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Victory
  • Lose
  • Underdog

• I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Son

• My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Science
  • Dad

• I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Like

• Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Talking
  • Gains

• Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.

  

  Daniel Walker Howe
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Natural

• It's how I learned to play guitar - sitting with Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick records, backing the needle up and learning how to play along. When the band started, by doing something that was very obvious to us and sort of traditional, it set us apart at the time from what was happening musically.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Learning

• If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Education
  • Problem
  • Language

• I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Marriage
  • Thrive

• I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Quality