Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Herbie Hancock

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
  • Birth

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Ancient
  • Oil

• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Even

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mistake

• I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Game

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • World
  • School
  • Pretty

• I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • People
  • Heart
  • Pain

• When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Money
  • Wife

• The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • People
  • Good
  • Energy

• So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Progress
  • Japanese

• I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.

  

  Patty Murray
  • Country
  • Together
  • Success

• However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.

  

  Marvin Harris
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.

  

  Dries van Noten

• With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

  

  Amy Heckerling

• Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Genres

• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • May
  • Age

• When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• When Nick At Nite is showing George Lopez, it's not doing what I'm thinking. But yes, I even write in the book about how MeTV went to Vince Gilligan and had him present an evening of his favorite television. So it can be done, but I think it can be done on a really large scale. The television of Dennis Potter, most of it hasn't been seen in this country. And that's just one example - it's a very obscure example. There's plenty of great TV out there. There's more crap - but there's great TV, too.

  

  David Bianculli
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Country

• I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Thinking
  • Risk
  • Adventure