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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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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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'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
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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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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.
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I just feel like I'm an artist that still has set a standard for artists that come up to follow and be like...So, yeah, I guess I'm a legend somewhat, I guess in my own right, but I still got a long ways to go.
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As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
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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.
