Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
I'm just so thrilled that all these contemporary artists want to sing with me. They're all making me feel so good.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
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A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
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Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
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I'm just so thrilled that all these contemporary artists want to sing with me. They're all making me feel so good.
