Esperanza Spalding Quotes

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

Esperanza Spalding

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• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Luck

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Fortune
  • Quit

• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Occurred

• The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Vote
  • Wishes
  • Minority

• As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Book
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Pretty
  • Try
  • Expression

• I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Years
  • Tennis

• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Imagination
  • Human
  • Kindness

• The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Hair
  • Lazy
  • Washing

• I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Question
  • Always

• Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

  

  Haim Ginott

• To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

  

  Brigitte Boisselier
  • Freedom

• Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

  Chaka Fattah

• You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

  

  Christo

• I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Famous

• Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Struggle

• I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Music
  • School
  • Listening

• Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

  

  Pam Houston

• I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Island