Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
Ferdinand Christian Baur -
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.
Kapil Sibal -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
Tammy Duckworth -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
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.
Orlando Bloom
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
T. J. Miller -
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.
Sam Smith -
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King -
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.
Harold Bloom -
The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
Salmon P. Chase -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin
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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.
Kate Winslet -
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.
Kate Reardon -
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.
Walter Kirn -
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
Daniel Bryan -
My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
Adam Lambert -
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
Mackenzie Phillips
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Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away.
Kevin Keegan -
In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
Haruki Murakami -
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris -
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
Jose Saramago -
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
Christmas Humphreys -
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Sammy Davis, Jr.