Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.
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I have to do this my way.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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I have been vain since birth.
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I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.
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There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.
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If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
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Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
