#nat

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#colorblind #get #like #message #our

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#being #every #frank #frank sinatra #how

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#always #back #called #ever #frank

My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#anthem #attorney #back #campaign #dad

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#avoidance #beginning #clear #contaminate #contemplate

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#became #been #before #cook #cooking

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#i #know #may #nations #people

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#classical #dead #dispute #distribution #emphasis

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#bring #function #imagination #meet #myth

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. ↗

— James Connolly

#cannot #conditions #derives #inspiration #just