Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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We are here to make another world.
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The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
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Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.