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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Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Jim Leach

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Nobody gets any guarantees.

John Engler

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I believe you have to start with yourself, think about your bad habits and prejudices, not only in your profession but generally in life. Why do I assume that a doctor is a man? Something is indoctrinated from very early on.

Max Martin

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When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

Jeff Lemire

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I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to be a traffic controller - you want a guy that's really worried about every plane in the sky!

Mia Goth

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Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.

Alveda King

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Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

Stephanie Cutter

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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

Sigmund Freud

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I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.

Trevor Paglen

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Embrace the fact that you are different... Don't think you're alone. Embrace it. Love it.

Mike Daniels

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Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

Chiranjeevi

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The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

Christopher Buckley

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