Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

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• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Best
  • Year
  • Been

• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Will
  • Policy
  • Kings

• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  

  Larry David
  • Long
  • Service
  • Army

• It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • See
  • Place

• I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Know
  • Responsibility
  • Fans

• We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Food
  • Change
  • Water

• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Myself
  • Difference

• Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Science
  • Amazing

• I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • See
  • Nations
  • United Nations

• You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Cold
  • Snow

• Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Daily

• All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Political
  • Action
  • Wish

• Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Work
  • Home
  • Church

• The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Business
  • Wealth

• I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Lost

• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Me
  • Passionate

• The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan

• At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Vision
  • Musician
  • Jazz