Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
I'm like a pitcher in the bullpen, keeping my arm warm. When they call me, I'll be ready to go.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say.
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.
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Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
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I would make a few jabs at myself and go for the audience - they are still as flawed as ever.
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
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I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
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When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totally different outfits.
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One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.
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I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.
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My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.
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Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
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What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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I'm like a pitcher in the bullpen, keeping my arm warm. When they call me, I'll be ready to go.
