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I don't have many easy songs.
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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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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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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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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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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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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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.
I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.
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Imitations only better the original.
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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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Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
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Once I get outside my house in the morning, I'm on.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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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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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.
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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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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
