Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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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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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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I got a big mouth.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'
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I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.
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I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.
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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
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These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
