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The Entertainer He did it all.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
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Dancer
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Jazz Musician
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New York City
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
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After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.
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Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
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Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
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On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
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If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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Imitations only better the original.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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