Tony Bennett Quotes

Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

Tony Bennett

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When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.

Jim Talent

GrowthKeep GoingJobMovingWhy

There is absolutely zero doubt that you can technically do an excellent full-featured FPS game, because these devices are more powerful now than, like, a previous generation Xbox.

John Carmack

GameGenerationDoubtYouPowerful

If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

FunnyMovingYouGoWantStrive

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Meghan O'Rourke

WomenTalentsTheorySelf-Conscious

I like playing characters with internal problems.

Michael Eklund

ProblemsPlayingLikeInternal

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Amy Tan

MotherEyesLightYouRoutineNew

Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.

Steve Erickson

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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Simone Weil

MindPrisonLanguageEnclosed

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

Trisha Goddard

LondonDrinkSameHolesWatering

I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.

Mohammad Azharuddin

SadHappyMeTryingGrandfather

People probably think I'm cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It's not about my look.

Liu Wen

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My productivity is overwhelming!

Jason Statham

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