Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
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You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
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I mean that a party can’t be anything other than a distributor of favors in exchange for support, ideals are part of the furniture.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
