Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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A man can preach no better than he prays.
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We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
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I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
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What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
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It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."
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'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.
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The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.
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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
