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Esperanza Spalding Quotes

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

Esperanza Spalding

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1984

Topics

Loved Grow You Know Nothing Grow Up

I really looked up to Grace Kelly when I was growing up. I thought she was just so beautiful and elegant. I wanted to grow up to be like her.

Beautiful Grace Growing Up Thought

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

Me Reading Never Up Move Favourite

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

Work Hard Work Man Work Hard Boots

The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.

Depression Anxiety First Six Phase

I love weights, but it's too far to get to the gym. So I make the farm my gym: I split wood and haul tires and do work on the farm, and that's sort of my weight training portion.

Work Love Training Farm Gym Wood

People were asking me all kinds of questions about the business, and I was initially put off. I was like, 'Just invest if you want to invest. Don't bother me.'

Business People Me Questions You

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Life Mother Me My Life Early Born

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

Decision People End Doubt Going

I'm getting more confident the more I play.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Confident Play More Getting

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

Up Act Because Bucket Would Kicked

If I'm not capable of doing it, I won't do it. But you're going to get 120 percent of me every time I'm on the field.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Time Me Doing You Capable Going

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

Time Me Writing Feel Know Cry

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