Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

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• There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.

  

  Barry McGuire
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• I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
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• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.

  

  Webb Simpson
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• It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

  

  Ted Shackelford
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• The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
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• I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

  

  Gary Hume
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• I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
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• Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

  

  Garet Garrett
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• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
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• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
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• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

  

  S. J. Perelman
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• Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
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• If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

  

  China Anne McClain
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• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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