Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them
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I always played to win.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.
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In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.
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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
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Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
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All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them
