Esperanza Spalding Quotes

You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.

Esperanza Spalding

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There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Joel Osteen

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If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

Michael Ignatieff

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I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I think I just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies keep getting younger and younger, and why do they think he's so hot even though we know that the girl who's playing this part actually has a handsome boyfriend?'

Robert Downey, Jr.

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My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.

Michael T. Flynn

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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Louise J. Kaplan

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When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

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Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

Dominic West

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I haven't been very good about dealing with disappointment. I suffer it, and then when that suffering becomes a kind of predation, then it's gone. Because the disappointment is not always realistic.

Donald Sutherland

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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Thomas Carlyle

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