Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
Herbie Hancock
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
Patricia Reilly Giff
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
Vikas Swarup
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Ed Koch
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
Laura Wade
I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.
Rakul Preet Singh
Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
Kate Spade
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
Rafael Nadal
I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
Hannibal Buress
I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
R. A. Salvatore
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
To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
Lady Gregory
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
Wendell Johnson
I have to do this my way.
W. Mark Felt
Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
Gavin Newsom
When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
Kathryn Harrison
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
Kenneth Lay
It's tougher for women than men in Hollywood, period, if you ask me. As with most professions, women have generally not found equality with men when it comes to income and influence. There aren't as many female directors, producers, and writers, which translates to fewer complex roles for women.
Nazanin Boniadi
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.
Francis Bacon
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.
Herbie Hancock
