Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best – performing and singing for people.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible chefs. One friend makes an eggplant parmesan that is heavenly and melts in your mouth, and another makes a chocolate pudding that I can't resist.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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You can change only what people know, not what they do.
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I think the best decade of my life was between 40 and 50. Forty was the turning point for me as an actress.
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I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best – performing and singing for people.
