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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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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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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I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
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The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.
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Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.
