Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.

  

  Kai Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Law

• A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Done
  • Vision

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• 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

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Poet

• Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Business
  • Independent
  • Look

• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Action

• I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fame

• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Up
  • Today
  • Nothing

• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • American
  • America

• Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Power
  • American

• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People

• Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Creativity

• I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • Done

• I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • People
  • Technology