Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
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Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.
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'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'
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And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
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I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
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I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
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I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
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People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
