Eric Whitacre Quotes

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

Eric Whitacre

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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Jodie Foster

PeopleBetterMoviesAlwaysIdea

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

John Ruskin

MindWantKindUpNaturalAlmost

Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a canoe for Earth Day. The sound was horrible, and the quality was horrible... But you have to blog what's interesting to you and not care what anyone thinks.

Rosanna Pansino

QualityDayRiverSisterCareYou

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

Ron Kind

TechnologyWorldPlaceBecomeNever

Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources.

Martin Rees

EnergyNewRunOilPrepareOut

If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.

Michel Faber

VillainSomeoneYouSkinKindGet

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

Jay DeMarcus

PeopleCashOwnInfluencesStuff

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

Diana Ross

AppreciateCareerLongevityJustHad

I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.

DeMar DeRozan

RespectWorldTreatCareYouPerson

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

Christopher Lee

ExtraordinaryInstinctsStaminaHis

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

Chen Guangbiao

FamilyGovernmentRichBorn

If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

Chrissy Metz

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