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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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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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Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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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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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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You don’t swing where you sleep.
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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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The Entertainer He did it all.
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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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I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
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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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On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
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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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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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