Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
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Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.
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The opposite of love is fear, not hate.
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When once-which every body must be-you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion-caution-and sometimes causelessly.
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We also call upon our Saudi neighbors to let us pursue a democratic path....In many cases, Yemeni tribal leaders and other prominent individuals have received far more generous aid payments from Riyadh than from the Yemeni government...Saudi interference in Yemen is also motivated by a fear that the Arab Spring...might soon reach Riyadh
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There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.
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Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.
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Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
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I remember being in middle and high school and hearing Demi Lovato speak up about her mental illness, and that was comforting.
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Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.
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The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'
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The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.
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I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.
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You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.
