Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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All I want is to have my peace of mind...
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There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better.
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The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own.
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
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When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.
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Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders.
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What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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The most beautiful love is the one who found it during our search for something else.
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A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.
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The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
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I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.
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You have to do things that do good for you and when there's an uncharted course, you have to figure out how to get through it.
