Esperanza Spalding Quotes
If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.
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If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.
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While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
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If you're wondering what I mean by 'miracle,' it's simple: a miracle is a shift in perspective from fear to love. A miracle can be the moment you choose to forgive your ex-lover and let go of decades of resentment, or the moment you recognize that losing your job was not a tragedy but an opportunity to follow your true calling.
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On the First Coast, there's a team of individuals working extremely hard for the future of JAXPORT. On the road ahead, I look forward to working with them to see that the Port is afforded every opportunity to grow and expand. The challenge is large, but we are all up for it.
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I had a great time in the NFL. To make it in the amount of time that I did was awesome; it's a dream come true, and hell, it gave me the opportunity to go wrestle.
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For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
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Never surrender opportunity for security.
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It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
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So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
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My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.
