Esperanza Spalding Quotes

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

Esperanza Spalding

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• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Internet
  • Shopping

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • God
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Action
  • Lost
  • Path

• I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • People
  • Happy
  • Doing

• Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Kind
  • Nothing
  • Ever

• Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Vision

• The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Political
  • Air

• For me, I do everything all the way. When I love my wife, I love her all the way. This isn't a sales pitch; this isn't a tagline. You'll see us in our 80s, and we'll be sitting together on a rocking chair. That's how it is. That's how it ends for us.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Together
  • Wife
  • Sales

• I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Great
  • Art
  • Photography

• I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Women

• I'm a Fritos Burrito guy. Me and Taco Bell have a love relationship on Twitter; they follow me. Out of 16 people they follow me, so I'm very loyal to my girlfriend, Taco Bell.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • People
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Up
  • Together
  • Black

• Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Mind
  • Hope

• People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Business
  • Iron
  • Steel

• I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Hope
  • Spanish
  • My Name