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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At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
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A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.
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Please note that most - but not all - Siebel employees are currently eligible for hire at salesforce.com today and that the recruiting department will screen for eligibility.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.
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Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
