Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

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• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Pardon
  • Glowing
  • Adjust

• When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

  

  Kaskade
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Better

• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Cool

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Education
  • Support

• Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Loss

• You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • You
  • Out
  • Network

• Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Good
  • You

• Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Credit
  • Apple

• If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

  

  O. Henry
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May

• It is the vocation of each person to become unique.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Unique

• The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Experience
  • Alcohol
  • Hangover

• Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • World
  • Friends

• Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for disruption. Bitcoin is absolutely a core platform and asset format that we are dependent on to build this business.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • People
  • Business

• When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

  

  James Howe
  • People
  • Funny

• From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

  

  John Fahey
  • Friends
  • Perspective

• Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • National standards
  • Legal force

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• A lot of the things that I like to portray on television are otherwise my real views.

  

  Windham Rotunda
  • Real
  • Television
  • Views

• One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Support
  • Vision