Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

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• We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Money
  • Want
  • Building

• Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Years
  • Year
  • Donated

• My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Like

• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Home
  • College
  • Statistics

• Since I'm on a tour bus, sometimes it's really hard for me to wash my face, so I always make sure I have those Neutrogena Make-up Remover Cleansing Towelettes. No matter what and no matter how long the days are, I always have to wash with those before bed and when I wake up.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Always
  • Matter

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Property

• Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.

  

  Agatha Christie

• We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Commitment

• The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Time
  • Space

• I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

  

  Philip Schultz

• Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Work
  • Mind
  • America

• Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

  

  Don Shula
  • Success
  • Forever
  • Failure

• Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Bad

• Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • High
  • June

• It's not all Instagram worthy!

  

  Busy Philipps

• He who considers too much will perform little.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Little
  • Much
  • Perform

• I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

  

  Mark Ruffalo

• Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Service
  • Perform
  • God's Voice

• I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

  

  Andrew Flintoff
  • Gym
  • Perform
  • Pitch

• Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Power
  • Mysterious
  • Public Opinion

• I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

  

  Katherine Waterston

• More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Perform
  • Count Basie