Esperanza Spalding Quotes
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'
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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
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The next generation of luxury consumers are much more socially conscious, and they look to invest in brands that see the world the way they do.
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Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
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Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.
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I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.
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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
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I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.
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I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
