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 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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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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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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Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.
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People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.
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...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.
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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.
