Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I have a great office.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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The physical part was one thing. Whatever - I broke my face; that'll heal. The mental aspect was the biggest shock to the system. You just don't know how to experience stuff like that. You don't have any control over it, either. It's just how your body and brain reacts to something like that happening.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
