Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino -
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes -
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
Dana Stabenow -
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
Sadie Frost -
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
Samuel George Morton
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
Carl Hiaasen -
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
Tab Hunter -
I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
Natalie Massenet -
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
Pat Robertson -
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
Gavin Bryars -
When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
Mackenzie Astin
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski -
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
Paracelsus -
I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
Rachael Ray -
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
Cab Calloway -
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
Jack Layton -
It's about making sure retail investors get a fair shake, ... The one thing they deserve is honest advice and fair dealing.
Eliot Spitzer
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
Valerie Plame -
Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
Barry Ritholtz -
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama -
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
Edmund White -
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
John Scofield -
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Herbie Hancock