Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.
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The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
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You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.
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Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"
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I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
