Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes

I'm looking at my daughter right now. To think that I am her dad is the greatest honor in the world. She's an amazing kid. We have a great relationship and she is one of my closest friends. I seek her advice. I like to know what she thinks about things, and she's helped me through some really tough times. I just look forward to years of developing that relationship.

Harry Connick, Jr.

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• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Peace

• When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Smile
  • Vanity

• I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Know
  • More

• If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Empty
  • Farmer
  • Barn

• I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Father
  • Perfect

• I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Hope
  • Skill

• I don't think on-demand brings anything extra to sports.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Extra

• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Way

• I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Striving

• You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Help
  • Learn
  • Independent

• For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Deep
  • Dumb

• The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • God

• Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Programming
  • Bugs

• Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Trust
  • Forget
  • Performance

• I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.

  

  Kevin Brockmeier

• I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

  

  Piper Laurie
  • People

• We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Up
  • Broken

• I'm looking at my daughter right now. To think that I am her dad is the greatest honor in the world. She's an amazing kid. We have a great relationship and she is one of my closest friends. I seek her advice. I like to know what she thinks about things, and she's helped me through some really tough times. I just look forward to years of developing that relationship.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Kids