Esperanza Spalding Quotes

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

Esperanza Spalding

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Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Maynard James Keenan

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I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

Amanda Seales

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I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Steven Soderbergh

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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Robert A. Heinlein

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My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

Robert Zoellick

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I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Milos Forman

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I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

Donny Deutsch

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I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

Christopher Poole

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The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.

Bobby Flay

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In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

Ava DuVernay

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You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing.

William Zabka

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For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

Wilson Cruz

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