Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.Herbie Hancock
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson -
I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
Barbara Castle -
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
Cameron Crowe -
I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
Rachel Nichols -
I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
Garry Hynes -
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill -
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Pablo Casals -
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
Pat Conroy -
If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
Ralph Merkle -
The main thing is to be a force, so guys will say, 'Tooz is kicking butts.'
John Matuszak -
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
An Wang -
Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.
Peter Gabriel Genesis -
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.
S. I. Hayakawa
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
Michael Caine -
Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
Harry S Truman -
What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
Molly Ivins -
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
Herbie Hancock