Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
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'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
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It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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Understanding what the framers meant can help us. But alone it cannot be enough.
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I have a closet full of blazers and more striped shirts than any human could possibly wear. Somehow I think that I don't have striped shirts, and then I look at my closet and go, 'Oh, I have ten.' But then you always end up with your favourite striped shirt of the moment, and you don't end up wearing any of the other ones.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
