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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
New York
Samuel George Davis Jr.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Imitations only better the original.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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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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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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I don't have many easy songs.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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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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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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The Entertainer He did it all.
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On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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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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If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
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Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
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