Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

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• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sports
  • Beat
  • Competitors

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• The offseason is when you try to gain strength. You have 162 games during the year, so you've got to pick and choose the times work out.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Work
  • Year
  • Strength

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Black
  • Struggle

• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Go

• When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Government
  • Just

• When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Energy

• What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • She
  • Fear
  • Small

• I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Myself
  • End
  • Step

• Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Life Is A

• Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Sweet
  • Listen

• It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.

  

  Scott Carpenter
  • Men
  • Country
  • Home

• Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Book

• No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Hours

• All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Film
  • Sky
  • Miss

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  Herbie Hancock
  • Giving
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