Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

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• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Country

• Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• I came in prepared for the rest of the year to kind of not have expectations of the outcome of the games -- just to go with what happened. The game itself, especially the second half, was terrific.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Game
  • Rest
  • Games

• He was smiling. It was one of those sincere smiles grown-ups give kids when they’re trying to get them in arm’s reach for something bad. Doctors smile that way right before they give you a shot; teachers look the same just before they tell you they found out what you did. The Big Bad Wolf probably smiled at Red Riding Hood like that when he was pretending to be her grandma. Despite all my mother’s flaws including her mean streak, I never once saw that travesty of an expression on her face.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Bad

• The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

  

  Aaron David Gordon
  • Life
  • Important
  • Power

• I think people like us because of the culture of trust we have in the site, the culture of goodwill -- and people manage to get stuff done.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Done
  • Culture

• My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Work
  • Number
  • Appropriateness

• Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

  

  Chet Huntley
  • Hate
  • Reason
  • Yankees

• So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'

  

  Jim Kolbe
  • Marriage
  • Care
  • Gay

• The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • War
  • Running

• A lot can be done, but not everyone immediately succeeds in everything.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Done
  • Succeed

• To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

  

  Adelle Davis
  • Cause
  • Obesity
  • Calories

• If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Human
  • I Believe
  • Navigation

• Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • People
  • Audience
  • Advantage

• I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Humans
  • Musician