Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
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What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
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As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
