Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
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I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
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'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
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Who needs a man? I don't.
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Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.
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I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.
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A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'
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I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time.
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I started to sing after high school, and I may have dreamed about being Randy Travis a time or two.
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I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.
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In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.
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As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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As against the 'invisible hand' of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
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I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.
