Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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You have to be yourself.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.
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Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
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All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.
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It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.
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It gives the young men some assurance that things are going to be maintained.
