Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.
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It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
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Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.
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I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
