Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.Herbie Hancock
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
Verite -
Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
Mahershala Ali -
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
Karin Slaughter -
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
Dallas Willard -
Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
Zac Posen -
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. Milne
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul -
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
Gary Lockwood -
It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
Paloma Elsesser -
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
Edgar Winter -
I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.
Samuel Larsen -
I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.
Laura Branigan
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
Jack Welch -
Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
Tad Williams -
I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.
Brian Hugh Warner -
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter -
This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.
Chuck Palahniuk -
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.
Dalai Lama -
Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe -
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier -
Great things happen only once.
Peter Thiel -
I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.
Tom Araya Slayer -
People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.
Herbie Hancock