Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
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So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.
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Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
