Esperanza Spalding Quotes
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I pride myself on being tragically uncool.
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I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'
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I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.
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When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
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For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.
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All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
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There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the Bush tax cut, we're changing the debate entirely. Instead of just talking about what Bush has done, we are focusing on reforming the income tax system as a whole, ensuring fairness and integrity for middle-class taxpayers.
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don’t do as I say I’ll ruin you.
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Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.
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People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.
