Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• I love dressing up.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Love
  • Dressing

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Control

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Looks
  • Dreams
  • Inside

• Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Change
  • Air

• I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Black
  • Community

• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Great
  • City

• I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Hope
  • Powerful
  • motivation

• The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Art

• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Gentleman

• I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • God
  • Long
  • Soul

• I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Good
  • Home
  • Business

• I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Good
  • Great
  • Song

• When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

  

  Connie Smith
  • Song

• I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
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