Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I love simplicity.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Love is a state of being.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.
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I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me.
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In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
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I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.
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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
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You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
