Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
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I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
