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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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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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 don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.
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I'm American and I wanted my friend and people to see ' Red Army' . I didn't want it to be a film for Russia, although I did show it there and they absolutely loved it.
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I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
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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.
