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 don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.
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The church's job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.
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Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.
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There was no doubt what must be done—the law was clear. Written centuries ago, the Lex Caesare decreed that if any woman died while pregnant, the living child was to be immediately cut out of her abdomen. This poor girl, whose name no one knew, was certain to die; but the baby inside her lived and must be given a chance to survive. Selene was fearful. She had never before performed a Caesarean-law operation.
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When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
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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.
