Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
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It is too evident that if the drawing is bad, the color false, the deepest emotion must fail to express itself.
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My constant goal is to create clothing that applies to the lifestyle of my customers. My clothing must be aesthetically pleasing in color, texture, and construction. Rapid changes are a part of fashion, and the demands of the industry are that I remain fluid and versatile. But my aesthetic requirements will always be the same.
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I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
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I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
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From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
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We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.
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It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.
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I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Everyone seems to be surprised that I've changed post-marriage. But what's so surprising about it? You must change; it's such a big turning point in your life.
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I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.
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I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
