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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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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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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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
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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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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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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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Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
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One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.
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Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.
