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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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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It's just about taking each game as it comes and hopefully being up there at the end of the season.
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
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Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
