Herbie Hancock Quotes

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

Herbie Hancock

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When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

Michel Martelly

TodaySchoolYouResultsGoWill

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

Don King

KingAmericaHappenOnlyObama

In 1994, the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law to prevent and combat domestic violence.

Conner Eldridge

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I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

Ariana Grande

TimeBrokenMeSweetNightSong

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Philip Levine

WorkBestDayPoetryEvery Day

I love playing in Chicago, and the fans have been great to me.

Scottie Pippen

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One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.

Tilda Swinton

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One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.

Norman Borlaug

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Seattle isn't known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.

Ryan Lewis

GreatStyleMeThinkDoingEnough

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I'm happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Mr. T

LifeGoodMotherSonHappyPeople

But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.

Lindy Boggs

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People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

Lionel Richie

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