Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
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Islam means peace.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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I'm a political conservative.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.
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Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.
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They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.
