Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Herbie Hancock

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• 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!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Morning
  • Everyday
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• 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.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Learn

• I have the strange ability to shut things out.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Strange

• George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Always
  • Said
  • Rip

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Country
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Guy

• You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • You
  • Gym
  • Walk

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • She
  • History
  • Mother

• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Home
  • Stars
  • Pool

• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Ambitious
  • Rather
  • Than

• Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

  

  Jacques Rivette
  • Doubt
  • Profound

• She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Want

• What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Culture
  • Christian
  • Animal

• Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Time

• Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

  

  Colin O'Donoghue
  • Feeling
  • Sorry
  • Guilty

• Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Understanding