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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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New York City
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Samuel George Davis Jr.
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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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Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
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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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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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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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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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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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Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
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Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.
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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 have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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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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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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We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
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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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Imitations only better the original.
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You don’t swing where you sleep.
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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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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
