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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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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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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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 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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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
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My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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To me it is a riddle that Knut Wicksell, who for most of his life was a fanatical representative of extreme opinions in the social debate, could present a completely different personality in the scholarly context. During the period when I knew him he was the diffident seeker after scientific truth.
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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.
