Eric Whitacre Quotes

Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.

Eric Whitacre

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I come to work, and I have a good time. I have no reason to change anything that I do.

Jim Pattison

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Players alone don't win championships. It takes an entire organization. Someone has to acquire the players. Someone has to coach them. Someone has to generate revenue to pay them. But at the end of the day, the players are the ones who put their minds and bodies on the line to win.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

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You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

Jeff Bridges

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We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.

Tom Brokaw

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I had seen 'Avenue Q' off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it was the smartest, funniest thing I'd seen in a long time.

Rob McClure

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If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

Ross Kemp

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Jon Landau

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Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

David Ulevitch

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Coco Chanel

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We have a broad, well-positioned company, so when 'Minions' comes out, it can be in theme parks all over the world. We own Fandango. We can advertise on a network. We can have the characters pop up on the Golf Channel.

Brian L. Roberts

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