Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes.
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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Leave this world a little better than you found it.
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If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
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I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.
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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
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This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
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If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.
