Esperanza Spalding Quotes
When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
Esperanza Spalding
Quotes to Explore
-
People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
Tamzin Merchant
-
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Oren Peli
-
I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
-
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze
-
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
Olivia Wilde
-
From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
Olav Thon
-
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
Francesca Annis
-
I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
Patricia Riggen
-
I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.
Rachael Ray
-
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce
-
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
Gary Oldman
-
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Hannah Arendt
-
You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
-
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
D. H. Lawrence
-
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H. P. Lovecraft
-
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
Imelda Marcos
-
I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
Sam Hunt
-
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
-
Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.
Ernest Angley
-
We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.
Lorenzo Snow
-
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Larry Ellison
-
Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
-
All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
Steven Spielberg
-
When I was a kid, people called me Emily rather than Esperanza, even though my full name is Esperanza Emily Spalding.
Esperanza Spalding
