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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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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I came in prepared for the rest of the year to kind of not have expectations of the outcome of the games -- just to go with what happened. The game itself, especially the second half, was terrific.
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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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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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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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There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.
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I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
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It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
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Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
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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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My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
