Tony Danza Quotes

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Chance
  • Happened
  • Flight

• If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Mean
  • Information

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Today
  • You
  • Fireworks

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Party
  • King

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• My husband and I are just really laid back people.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Husband
  • Back

• Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • War
  • Respect

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • For Her

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Good
  • Different
  • School

• I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Villains

• I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

  

  Katherine Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Science

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Kids

• While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

  

  James Nesbitt

• Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • World
  • Music
  • Dad

• Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

  

  Tony Danza
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Innocent