Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.
Quotes to Explore
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.
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Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Brain damage ever since the day I was born, drugs is what they used to say I was on. They say I never knew which way I was goin'.
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..the function of art work is.. ..the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.
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It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you at some stage in your life to determine if you're susceptible to concussions. We need a test that shows us that your brain is situated a certain way that puts you at risk. If you are susceptible, don't play football.
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People use us for their weddings, their university convocations - you become a part of culture. That's a big part of people's lives, and it's actually a really big honor for us. All their memories around that process are stored in Paperless Post.
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Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.
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Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
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A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.
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In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.
