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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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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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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Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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I don't have many easy songs.
