Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

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• You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Fun, Looks, Able

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• Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Regret, Wish, Tactics

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• You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Humor, Commitment, Two

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• My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Mother, Running, Moving

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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.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Success, Real, Congratulations

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• If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Baby, Hard Work, Want

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• Talk about handicap - I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Handicaps, Jew

  "Sammy Davis Jr. Kept His Cool in a Less-Tolerant Era" by Carmel Dagan, variety.com. December 8, 2015.

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• What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Music, Education, Money

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• Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Friendship, Special, Moments

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• The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Mystery

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• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Patience, Drinking, Funny Sarcastic

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• My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Men, Black, Handicaps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  "Sammy Davis Jr". The Oral Cancer Foundation, February 6, 2008.

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• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Reality, Nightmare, Mental Health

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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.

  Names, Acting, Done

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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.

  Goyim, Found, Jew

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• If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sexy, Fighting, Men

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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.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Stars, Average, Entertainment

  In Sammy Davis Jnr., J., and B. Boyar 'Yes I Can' (1965) pt. 3, ch. 23

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• Imitations only better the original.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Originality, Imitation, Originals

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• On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Scales, Eleven, Rate

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• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Recovery, Sober Up, Able

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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.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Kids, Guy, Working Together

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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.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sweetest, Creatures, Items

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• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Fathers Day, Baby, Men

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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.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Song, Integrity, Men

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