Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

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• I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Real
  • Roles
  • Gain

• It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Fun

• The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • May
  • Character
  • Truth

• When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Boy
  • Boys

• I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• I think most of the American people were upset during the Zoe Baird nomination that she hired an illegal alien. That was what upset them more than the fact the she did not pay Social Security taxes.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • People
  • She
  • American

• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Waiting

• If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Challenge

• What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Happy
  • Value

• I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Feeling
  • Forever

• One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hope
  • Able
  • Determined

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

  

  Lisa See
  • She
  • Show
  • Loves

• It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Good
  • Art
  • Way

• They're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinking alone.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Alone
  • Drinking
  • Drink

• Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Music
  • Book
  • Age

• I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Grows
  • Missions
  • Contribute

• Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • School
  • Kids
  • Twelve

• So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Doe
  • Grows