Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

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• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Great
  • Free
  • Foundation

• If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Success
  • Progress

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Crazy
  • End
  • Communication

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Great
  • War
  • Civil War

• The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Empathy

• I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.

  

  Maria Montessori
  • Work
  • Help
  • Soul

• While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • America
  • Law

• You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Live

• Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

  

  Fritz Kreisler
  • Trying
  • War
  • Period

• If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

  

  Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
  • Opportunity
  • Enough
  • Helping

• I like all kinds of input.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Music
  • Spirit
  • Jazz