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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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
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...And it was about four or five hours later that Alice - Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice.
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If someone is critiquing the actual technique involved, that’s a whole other story. Mainly a lot of music critics have a tendency to just say they don’t like it.
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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.
