Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Herbie Hancock

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• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Face
  • Going
  • Used

• I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Record
  • Dialogue
  • CD

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • India
  • Remain
  • Gas

• How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Silence
  • Once
  • While

• Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • U.S.
  • Fatigue
  • Cowards

• I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Look
  • Values

• I put castor oil in my eyebrows. And I also tint my eyebrows when I get them cleaned up. That way, I don't have to be constantly filling them in, because I'm lazy.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Way
  • Lazy

• The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Country
  • Mistake
  • Fly

• Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Law
  • Police

• If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

  

  Christina Romer
  • High
  • Powerful
  • Competition

• I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

  

  Al Goldstein
  • People

• With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Isolation

• Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Together
  • Friend

• You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Positive

• Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Music
  • Real
  • Mean