Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I don't like allegories.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.
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By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
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Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
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We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.
