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.

Herbie Hancock

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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

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• 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

• My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.

  

  James Murphy
  • Time
  • Why
  • Strong

• The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.

  

  Wanda Landowska
  • Difficult
  • Bottom
  • Transparent

• Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • May
  • Financial
  • Obstacles

• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Good
  • Children
  • Remember

• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

  

  Rex Stout
  • Keys
  • Glasses

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

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Obstacles
  • Overcoming
  • Keys