Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

• Patience
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• Stupidity

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• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

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• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  

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• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  

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• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

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• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

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• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

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• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

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• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

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• I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

  

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• I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

  

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• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

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• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

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• I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

  

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• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

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• There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

  

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

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• You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

  

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• People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

  

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• For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

  

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• Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

  

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• I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.

  

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• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity