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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Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.
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It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do.
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
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People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.
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When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
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Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.
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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.
