Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.Harry Connick, Jr.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
Yishan Wong -
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn Blur -
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith -
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott -
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
Gabrielle Union -
And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
Laetitia Casta -
I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
Garry Trudeau -
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
Hans Frank -
I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I'd pass out again.
Taylor Hicks -
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Pat Buchanan
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
Daisy Berkowitz -
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
Mal Peet -
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Nat King Cole -
Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
Gary Johnson -
If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
Joe Haldeman
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I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.
Jo Brand -
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
Kacy Hill -
Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.
Marie Helvin -
I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
Fleur East -
At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.
Harry Connick, Jr.