Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.
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Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
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I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.
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Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
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When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
