Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
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I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
