Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Interested
  • Beliefs
  • Forcing

• I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Door

• The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Question
  • Hero
  • Irish

• Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

  

  David Guetta
  • Kids

• That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Life
  • Rest

• I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

  

  Martha McSally
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

  

  David Autor
  • Job

• The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Trying
  • Truth

• In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.

  

  John Dobbin
  • Time
  • Question
  • Ignore

• I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • May

• When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Food
  • Take

• I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Think

• There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

  

  Ken Wilber

• When you suddenly become successful, the change is enormous, both financially and in terms of recognition and the way people treat you. I found that hard to deal with. I got very guilty about it, and I think I put up obstacles to prevent myself enjoying it.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Guilty

• It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Obstacles
  • Overcoming
  • Keys