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.
Ed Koch -
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco Guicciardini -
I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
Ram Charan -
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.
Imelda Staunton -
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino -
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.
Kate Brown
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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.
Nate Powell -
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
Harlan Coben -
The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
Manolo Blahnik -
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.
Bai Ling -
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
Dakota Johnson
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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.
Barry Manilow -
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.
Safra A. Catz -
I have to do this my way.
W. Mark Felt -
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.
Florenz Ziegfeld -
I have been vain since birth.
Wallace Shawn -
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.
Kate Moss
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Randall Kennedy -
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Zane Grey -
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
Gavyn Davies -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt -
Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.
Herbie Hancock