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Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
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New York City
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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The Entertainer He did it all.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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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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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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In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
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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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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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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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Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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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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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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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