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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I have a great office.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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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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I'm always going to love my father.
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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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The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.
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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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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
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Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.
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There is no Negro problem. There is no southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American problem. Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can and should be no argument. Every American citizen must have the right to vote.
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The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.
