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.
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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.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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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.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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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.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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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.
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I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
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You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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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.
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
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Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
