Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
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I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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Physical training is mental warfare!
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Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.
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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
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It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
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Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.
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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.
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Deep frying a Twinkie makes it healthy, right?
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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
