Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.
Quotes to Explore
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
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Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
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Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.
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The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
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A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a kind of town meeting.
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.
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Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
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Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.
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The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.
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This merger is immensely attractive to us, because there was no overlap in customers or core competencies. We are now able to invest in more cities by increasing staff, sales and services.
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Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
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What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.
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A totally healthy actor is a paradox.
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.
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In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.
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New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.
