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Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
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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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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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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
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The Entertainer He did it all.
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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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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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Imitations only better the original.
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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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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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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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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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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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