Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I hate the domestic life.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
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When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.
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'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
