Eric Whitacre Quotes

I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

Eric Whitacre

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The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

Joe Mays

UniversePlaceMortgagePointWhere

It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

Joe Wurzelbacher

LeadershipMeAmericanSaidRight

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Jennifer Garner

EnoughLuckyBroadwaySomething

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

Simon McBurney

TimeFireBrokenSchoolClimbBook

If she's not spoken for, and you come at her correctly, like a man, she'll get with you.

Tracy Morgan

ManYouSheHerGetCome

You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.

Lowell Bergman

HeroStoryYouFindWantNewspaper

When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.

Donovan

LovePeaceAngerLove IsMeLook

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Dorothy Kilgallen

NeedPsychiatristCatholic

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Peter Cushing

FearTodayManYellowYouthImpact

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

Peggy Lipton

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One day I was like, 'Mom, you wanna sign me at Sony?'

Selah Louise Marley

DayMeMomYouOne DaySign

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Thomas Carlyle

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