Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'
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Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.
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The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.
