Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.
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I collect craft. It inspires me.
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It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.
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If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'
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You know what Lenin says about 'intellectuals'. Individually certain of them may (politically) be declared revolutionaries, and courageous ones. But as a mass, they remain 'incorrigibly' petty-bourgeois in ideology.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
