Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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There is always pressure in football.
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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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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
