Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

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• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Building
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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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
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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.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
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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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
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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.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Free
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• Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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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.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
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• J'ai vraiment, un vrai bagage dans la tête. S'il y avait pour cela, comme il y a partout ici, des compagnies d'assurance, voilà un ballot je ferais assurer de suite.

  

  Edgar Degas

• I was bullied from the age of 11 onwards. I was always much bigger than the other kids. I spoke nicely, didn't swear, and I refused to try to fit in and be like everyone else. People assumed I thought I was above everyone else.

  

  Penny Lancaster
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• I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

  

  Antonio Banderas
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• Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Life

• When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.

  

  Joe Alwyn
  • Up
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• Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Hate
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• If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Good
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• We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

  

  Jimmy Wales

• Someone sent me an article on AI that was written by Tim Urban on the website Wait but Why - that was kind of where I stuck my toes in the puddle, and I said, 'OK, I've gotta learn about this!' I felt like this is one of those things that our generation is going to have to answer for, eventually, and I just wanted to educate myself on it.

  

  M. Shadows
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• So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

  

  Herbie Hancock
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