Esperanza Spalding Quotes

You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.

Esperanza Spalding

• Practice
• Scared
• Fearless
• Jazz Musician

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Comedy
  • Pain
  • Film

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Often

• And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a lot of songs from all the records. And we know there's a stable we as fans would want to hear, so we always give them, then we change up a bunch of songs and throw in a couple new ones.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Couple

• It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd love to have a nice hiatus gig, like a recurring role. Or to do a good film. I'd like to do a Woody Allen movie. I really didn't have a plan, and that's okay with me.

  

  Betsy Brandt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Home

• When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.

  

  Cleavant Derricks
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reality

• I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Believe
  • Opinion

• At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

  

  Ellen Malcolm
  • Women
  • Business
  • Power

• Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

  

  James Dean

• I would say I've done everything I wanted to.

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Done

• I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

  

  Chad Smith Chickenfoot
  • Jump

• It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape.

  

  Klaus Lackner
  • Important
  • True
  • Small

• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Thinking

• Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Person

• It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Girl
  • Silly
  • Souls

• When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, ‘Well, it’s men hurting other men.’ When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, ‘Well, it’s blacks hurting blacks.’ The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we're familiar with in gaming and being like, 'OK, hold on, let's re-examine this for a second. Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this a little bit ridiculous?' That's where it is.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Funny

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Literature

• They were all wonderful on Andy Griffith Show, but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.

  

  Betty Lynn
  • Fun
  • Actor
  • Deliver

• You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Practice
  • Scared
  • Fearless