Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.
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Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.
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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
