Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Talent is very hot.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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..war in itself is one of the manifestations of life, like disease, love, and lust. And just as I follow fear, disease, lust, love, and hate to their utmost limits, well, now I am trying war. It is all life, wonderfully various and rich in inspiration.
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Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
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The expression of joy also makes the ego more resilient, less fearful, less resentful of diverse conditions when they occur. The emotion itself is an automatic signal that unites the conscious and subconscious is shared experience.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
