Esperanza Spalding Quotes
What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.
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A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
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I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.
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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
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I don't represent corporations.
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I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
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Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
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I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have.
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They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?
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Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
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It's our vision that in three to five years this could be a really large special meet with 20 or 30 teams coming in. You have to start somewhere and grow from there.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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If Morrissey could be a singer, then anybody could.
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What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.
