Tony Bennett Quotes

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole.

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I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.

Jeanne Phillips

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It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

Ruth Rendell

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Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Michelle Bachelet

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What's great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering 'Friday Night Lights' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow... things don't get old as fast as they used to. They stay vibrant.

Jason Katims

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Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Jose Bergamin

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People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how much time you have to put in working out. The lifting, the eating habits, trying to change all that so you can be that guy on TV, to be a baller, that's what people don't understand.

Chauncey Billups

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I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

Alice McDermott

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We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

William Labov

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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Norman MacCaig

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I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.

Reuven Rivlin

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Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.

Leo Durocher

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews

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