Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.
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About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.
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The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
