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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
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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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We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
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There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression..until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the case.
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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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If I don't learn something every single day, it's a wasted day.
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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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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.
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I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
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When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that's one of the things I think General Motors does really well. There's a big population that buys our trucks. It's their life - or it's their livelihood. Not their lifestyle, their livelihood. It's a work truck.
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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.
