Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.Herbie Hancock
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie -
Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
J. Cole -
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet -
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
Uma Thurman -
I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
Barbara Windsor
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
Orlando Bloom -
I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
Carlos Ponce -
Any reaction is better than none.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Walter F. Mondale -
I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
Hans Blix -
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
Salman Rushdie
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
Eavan Boland -
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Collecting is my passion.
Ursula Andress -
Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
Ted Dexter -
I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
Kate Mara -
I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.
Hannah Hoch
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Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.
Lee Majors -
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.
Gary Speed -
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
Oliver Tambo -
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
Herbie Hancock