Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

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• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Story
  • Hero
  • Look

• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conscience

• Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Life
  • Death
  • Lies

• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
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  • Comedy

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • May
  • Political
  • Party

• There is something like destiny. I don't really care if people doubt or express shock over whether our marriage will work.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Marriage

• I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Real
  • School
  • Jesus

• When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

  

  Kygo
  • Up
  • Done
  • Fun

• I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

  

  William Sanderson
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Actors

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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