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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Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. “Yes?” “What are you doing twenty feet in the air?” “Looking for a book.” “Would you mind very much returning to the earth?” “What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?” “I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.” “You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.
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Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
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To be a simple animal like my father, untroubled by consciousness, or conscience. To sleep soundly, at east with your certainties, men as expendable as beef. (p. 161)
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
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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.
