Esperanza Spalding Quotes
You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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I would like to have a rematch against Fabricio Werdum.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
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You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.
