Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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Now and then, there's a fool such as I.
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Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo
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I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.
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Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.
