Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
I am very thankful for this opportunity. It is a privilege and honor for me to follow in the footsteps of my father. Everywhere he's gone, he's been full of integrity and passion. That's what I want to carry on.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
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I always try to write the best I can.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.
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You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
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Language is such a technology.
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The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
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What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.
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I am very thankful for this opportunity. It is a privilege and honor for me to follow in the footsteps of my father. Everywhere he's gone, he's been full of integrity and passion. That's what I want to carry on.
