Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.
Herbie Hancock
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There are a lot of big personalities in our family, and because of the way that we interact with each other - and the fact that the girls are beautiful, the little ones are adorable, and my husband is an Olympic champion - there was this perfect storm, where I think you kind of wanted to watch and go, 'Wow, what's happening with this family?'
Kris Jenner
We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it's just not good for their cognitive - it's not good for their social development - I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten... We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them.
Jill Stein
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
Broderick Crawford
Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
Carol Berg
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
Billy Collins
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
bell hooks
We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.
Jill Scott
Every year, there is a new diet that all the celebs or housewives are trying. We all want the perfect diet or the perfect pill. If we surveyed a million women, and they could choose to learn the truth about God or the foolproof diet, I guarantee more women would pick the miracle diet over the miracle of life.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.
Phillipa Soo
In the South, there is more overt racism. It's more willfully ignorant and brazen. But it's not as if by moving I'm going to be able to escape institutionalized racism. It's not as though my life won't be twisted and impacted by racism anymore. It will.
Jesmyn Ward
I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.
Ann Turner
Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.
David Douglas Duncan
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.
Eric Kierans
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.
Eileen Pollack
There's heavy fire damage to the third floor, ... There are multiple ceilings and two roofs to get through to where the fire is at.
Chuck Norris
You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
Yasmin Mogahed
I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.
Herbie Hancock