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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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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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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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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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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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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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Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
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If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
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You don’t swing where you sleep.
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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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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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Entertainer He did it all.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
