Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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I can remember seeing the movie for the first time at a revival house in L.A. and laughing with everyone else, and never imagining that I would be doing Max one day, even though by then I had already memorized the entire movie.
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I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
