Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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I got no hate in me.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.
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To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.
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I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.
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A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
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The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?
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As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves when they sense that someone or something is on a lower rung than they are. This inferiority complex drives racism and sexism as well as outdated attitudes about animals.
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I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.