Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
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I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
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The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.
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I've always emulated her work ethic because she was one of the few skaters that didn't lose her temper, that would have a bad day, but have a great attitude, come back and try again. That was a huge lesson for me to learn.
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
