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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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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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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.
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I believe we all need to be aware of the biases we have. I am aware of mine; I am a white woman who grew up in a middle-class American family with a mom and a dad who were both educators. I can't make it different - I wouldn't want to - and I don't want to pretend to be something I'm not.
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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.
