Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
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I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'
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Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.
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I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
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We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we are all enveloped.
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When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
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My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen.
