Esperanza Spalding Quotes

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

Esperanza Spalding

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• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Way
  • Dinner
  • Town

• This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• …the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • World
  • Religious

• In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.

  

  Bernice King
  • Music
  • America
  • Culture

• Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Joy
  • Travel

• Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

  

  James E. Rogers
  • Education
  • Growing

• I can always act.

  

  Liam Neeson

• Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

  

  John Hodgman
  • People
  • Book

• I love the road trip. It was one of the original justifications to make the movie. So I want the movie to earn that road trip. And to me, that means calibrate it so that the fourth side of that double CD set is set up properly and it all makes sense.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Movie
  • Sense
  • Trip

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Mind

• Honor?” “Yes.” “I’m going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn’t let a man do to her.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Honor

• There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Want
  • Office
  • Ass

• If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kissing
  • Holy
  • Gentle

• It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Words
  • You
  • I Can

• The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Success
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Needs
  • Imagine
  • Decisions

• For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Imagine
  • Frustration
  • Bass