Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your normal routine at home. It is just a bit more discipline and not eating breads and pastas which are my favourite foods in the entire world.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
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Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.
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When things don't go your way, you brush it aside and carry on. Don't take what you have for granted. Enjoy what you have.
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Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.
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People are terrified of them to the point where Trump wants to ban all Muslims from coming here, which is ridiculous.
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
