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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I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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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.
