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Herbie Hancock Quotes

Music truly is the universal language.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Language Universal Truly

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

Year Early Working Assistant Agency

Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.

Humor Sense Of Humor Entertaining

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

Love School Face You Acting Play

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

People Better Will Prejudice Talk

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

Career Bureaucracy More Structure

Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.

John Shelby Spong

History People Never Real Lived Who

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

Travis Bradberry

Leadership Yourself Wait Action You

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Long You Ahead Try Never Him

I like to win; I like to compete; I like to sack the quarterback.

Win Compete Quarterback Like Sack

Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.

Jonathan Powell

Power Perception Understand Become

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'

People Reading Grow Want Connected

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

Christoph Waltz

I Am Awe Am Sondheim

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