Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.
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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
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Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills.
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Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.
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Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.
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I think this is an opportunity for me to use my talents to help the people of Pennsylvania. I think we can be much better than we have been in recent years. I believe Pennsylvania needs leadership from outside the box.
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If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.
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. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
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As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
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My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.
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I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
