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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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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My own proposals for reform in academia include the abolition of all literary conferences and the replacement of women's studies with sex studies, based on the rigorous study of world history, anthropology, psychology, and science. Today, in politically correct America, questions of quality, learning, and intellectual distinction are out of style.
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Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.
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Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
