#ned

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#american idol #antithesis #even #famous #got

You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#career #happen #happened #i #kid

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#card #consulted #control #disorder #memories

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#canned #like #music #wallpaper

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#american #american people #business #buying #chief

No man ever listened himself out of a job. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#himself #job #listened #man #out

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#happen #i #imagined #island #kid

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#bad press #because #been #came #chose

So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#down #end #end product #in other words #live

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#back #believe #come #decisions #disinterested