Esperanza Spalding Quotes
Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.
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In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?
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A small but brilliant advance made today by someone’s awareness may for the moment reach a very small audience, but insofar as it’s valid and beautiful, it will make its way and become part of the whole world of consciousness. So in that sense it’s all working toward this huge audience, and all working toward a better man.
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Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.
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An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.
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My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.
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This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
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I can't stop my comedic voice.
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I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I'm lucky to have a fast metabolism, so I haven't had to exercise much.
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Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
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Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
