Esperanza Spalding Quotes

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

Esperanza Spalding

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• Disco

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• Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.

  

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• Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

  

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• Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.

  

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• Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• Death does determine life.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
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• I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
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• I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
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• If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.

  

  James D. Watson
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• Rod and I are naturally in love, and that is what binds us together. But to keep the spark alive in your relationship, you really have to work at it.

  

  Penny Lancaster
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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  

  Booker T. Washington
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• Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

  

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• I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.

  

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• If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years.

  

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• My main interest is in cultivating my company.

  

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• I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

  

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• Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

  

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• Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.

  

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• I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.

  

  Anthony Caro
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• Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.

  

  Thomas More
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• I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

  

  Patti Smith
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• I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Disco