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.

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Together
  • Support
  • Desire

• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Moving Forward

• As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Focus
  • Sports

• The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

  

  Jean Patou
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Creature

• 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
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• 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
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Education

• My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

  

  Broderick Crawford
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Perfect

• Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

  

  Carol Berg
  • Perfect

• 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
  • Perfect
  • Poetry

• 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
  • Past
  • Moving
  • Ego

• We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Angry

• 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
  • Life
  • God
  • Women

• 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
  • Work
  • Perfect

• 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
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Racism

• I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.

  

  Ann Turner
  • Writing
  • Perfect
  • Wish

• 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
  • Perfect
  • Water
  • Risk

• Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Magic

• Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Success
  • Rejection

• I would say I'm a goof ball, but not a comedian.

  

  Jake Lacy

• God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• 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
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Moving