Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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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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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go.
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
