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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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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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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I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
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I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
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Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.
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And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.
