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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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 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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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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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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It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
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Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.
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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.
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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
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We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.
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The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.
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At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
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Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
