Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
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'It must be remembered that Dupach is more than half Negro, and due to the peculiar mentality of this Race, they seem unable to rise to prominence without losing their equilibrium.'
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I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
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There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you,so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own,and you go home and you cry and you want to die
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Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.
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The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
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My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
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It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.
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Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.
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Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.