Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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I want to play interesting women.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
