Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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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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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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I see the game too slow from second base. That's why I like to play more short.
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The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
