Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Quotes to Explore
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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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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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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It's so hard to so, so easy to say. But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
