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

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Oil
  • Ancient

• 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

• I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

  

  Jason Aaron

• 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

• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  

  Charles Mingus
  • Simple
  • Creativity

• I think people know that I've got a good heart.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Church
  • Brother
  • Idols

• I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Path

• My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • School

• I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Kind

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

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Thinking
  • Risk
  • Adventure