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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.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
Age: 64 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 8
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
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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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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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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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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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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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