Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  

  H. G. Wells
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  • Jealousy
  • Halo

• I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Mind
  • Real
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• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Job
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• In the heptathlon, you can be any shape. Some of the girls are more built than others, and their strong events are the shot put and javelin.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Strong
  • You
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• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
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  • Born

• It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Need

• Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Community

• Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Health
  • Moving

• The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Human
  • Hero

• When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Present
  • Hero
  • Living

• The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Men
  • Man
  • Strong

• I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Strong
  • More
  • Budget

• The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Science
  • Health
  • Positive

• Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Me
  • Suffering

• I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Choice

• The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Team
  • Goal

• Donald Trump is an interesting fellow.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Interesting
  • Trump

• We are certainly going to struggle to keep Drew.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Struggle
  • Drew
  • Certaily

• My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • Up
  • Moon

• My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Health
  • Moral