Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.
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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At the Evian tournament in 2010, in which I came in second, I wore baby blue on a Sunday. And ever since then, I've worn it every Sunday. Puma sponsors me, so I wear all their outfits in bright colors. I wear matching hair ribbons, too.
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There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.
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People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.
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The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
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My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
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In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.
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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.
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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
