Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

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• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Done
  • Ideas

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Change
  • Ideas
  • Resistance

• It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Ideas

• Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Carrying

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Born

• Every sketch goes through a rewrite stage where a group of writers sits around a table and pitches more jokes and ideas for the piece.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Ideas
  • Group
  • Table

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Live
  • Song
  • Culture

• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Window
  • Skills
  • Once

• Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Want

• If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Time
  • Skills
  • Fitness

• I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Running
  • Best

• I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Today
  • Fashion
  • Ideas

• I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Band

• I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Band

• I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the things white people have accomplished throughout history, I smile, and I nod, and I think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm glad I'm on that team.'

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • History

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

  

  The Boz
  • People
  • Running
  • Hurt

• When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Band
  • Ideas
  • Found