Esperanza Spalding Quotes
You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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The feeling that we call 'I' seems to define our point of view in every moment, and it also provides an anchor for popular beliefs about souls and freedom of will. And yet this feeling, however imperturbable it may appear at present, can be altered, interrupted, or entirely abolished.
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If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.
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It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.
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That cold January day - and so many people... I'd never imagined it would happen nowadays.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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I sometimes have dreams that my assistant director is waking me up and trying to get me to the set.
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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.
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First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .
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You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.
