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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The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
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Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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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.
