Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
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In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.