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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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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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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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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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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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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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 thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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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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It's always been fun for me to play somebody else. I did drama class when I was younger. It kind of just happened. I never said, 'I want to act.' I just auditioned for the role, I got it. I was blessed with this opportunity to be in 'Earth to Echo.' It's fun for me; it's cool to do.
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It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.
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There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
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My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.
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It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.
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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.
