Esperanza Spalding Quotes
There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!
Quotes to Explore
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, 'It passeth away;' for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
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It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.
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While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
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There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!
