Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.
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Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
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I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.
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I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
