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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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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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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There will be four ancillary shows on the MyMusic channel, and we'll be updating an entire blog with up-to-the-minute music news. You can visit it like BuzzFeed or Pitchfork and get album reviews. It's all as part of the sitcom experience, written by the characters.
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Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.
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I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
