Esperanza Spalding Quotes
And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
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All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
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When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.
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Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry. A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
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Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.
