Esperanza Spalding Quotes
I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring back our fuckin' FLAG, asshole! Show us some moon rocks, or kiss this.
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Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
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In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.
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A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
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Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.
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Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
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That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.
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I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
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I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.
