Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
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I have met a lot of women who are good at math.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.
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Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.
