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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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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A lot can be done, but not everyone immediately succeeds in everything.
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Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
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Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
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Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
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Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my life, because without having a spiritual grounding, I think you can get really swayed by the winds of all the praise or the criticism; it's all very, kind of, up and down. Try to stay up and focused.
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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.
