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Herbie Hancock Quotes

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1940

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Time Best Thought Coming Up Because

Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black people to have a fair share.

King People Tough Black Segregation

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Business Music Best Me Face Thought

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

Life Me Look Now Silent Will

The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.

Science Results Important Limitations

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

Believe Manifest I Believe Emotional

When I make a decision to run, I will make an investment, just like any business I've made investments in before.

Business Decision Investment Run

A leotard is more versatile than you might think!

Mary Helen Bowers

Think You More Might Than Versatile

The stock knows that I bought it, and it decides, 'Mohnish is done. Now let's go down.'

Down Go Done Now Knows Bought

I'm a champion, and I believe that if you're a champion, you can't be afraid to go out there and test yourself against the greatest challenges.

Yourself Challenges Champion Believe

Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.

Hero War Him Afghanistan Middle

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.

Life Well-Being Young Will Up Rare

After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.

Performance Think Comedy Structure

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