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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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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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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We want to see Thailand emerge as a bastion of freedom and democracy, not as a ... partner with the Burmese dictatorship. Friends don't let friends enable dictatorship.
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When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire-one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare.
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I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.
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There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.
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So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
