Esperanza Spalding Quotes
I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
