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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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
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Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.
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Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)
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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
