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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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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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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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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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 write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.
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I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.
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I shampoo and condition with Kerastase products but rarely brush it because I'm all about the Kate Moss bed-head look.
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I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.
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I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
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I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
