Esperanza Spalding Quotes
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
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'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
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All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
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I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.
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On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.
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It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.
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I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne.
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I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
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My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'
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I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
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The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.
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Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily.
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My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.
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I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
