Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I love writing songs.
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.
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One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
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I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
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In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.
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Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'
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I don't have many easy songs.
