Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
It was good that Jim put this in writing, ... It puts Tony's mind at ease and certainly mine as well.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
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I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.
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People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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If we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.
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It was good that Jim put this in writing, ... It puts Tony's mind at ease and certainly mine as well.
