"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.

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“Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.”
“For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.”
“America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.”

Source : Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.28, Vintage
“We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2001). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”, Dial
“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
“Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.”
“Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.”
“I will count to 10 before tweeting.”

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