Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.Herbie Hancock
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
Karl Marlantes -
I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'
Gabby Douglas -
No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
Vince Flynn -
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
Dane DeHaan -
Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra -
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase -
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston Bachelard
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
Zubin Mehta -
Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.
Oswald Chambers -
I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.
Harold B. Lee -
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
How we survive, is what makes us who we are.
Tim McIlrath Rise Against
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My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo -
The U.S. Army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at. It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies. The few good sergeants are getting out as soon as they can, and they are telling us privates to do the same.
Bowe Bergdahl -
If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.
Kevin Bales -
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.
Herbie Hancock