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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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Jazz Musician
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New York City
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.
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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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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Imitations only better the original.
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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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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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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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If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
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