Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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The writer is all alone.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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I think what Secretary Ash Carter is seeing, and I'm glad he is, is that we got to get NATO back working for the common defense. We've got to do more to support our partners in NATO, and we have to send a very clear message to Putin that this kind of belligerence, that this kind of testing of boundaries will have to be responded to. The best way to do that is to put more armor in, put more money from the Europeans in so they're actually contributing more to their own defense.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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I am a private human.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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The true artform is being a human being.
