Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes - Page 3

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• All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  White, House, Welcome

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• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Cities, America, States

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• Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Dance, Dancing, Tap Dancing

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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.

  Mistake, Drunk, Remember

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Three, Youth, Highways

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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.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sick, Laughing, Lines

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• "The Entertainer" He did it all.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Tombstone, Entertainers

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• I don't have many easy songs.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Song, Easy

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• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  War, President, Vietnam

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• With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Ocean, Heart, Europe

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• You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Years, Stills, Knows

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• There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Cities, Romance, Atmosphere

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• Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Children, May, Heavy

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• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Strong, Army, People

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• I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Country, Giving, Bobby Kennedy

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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.

  Uncles, Children, Lap

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• Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Doe, Stage

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• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Rights, Movement, Easy

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• I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Broadway, Dignity, Stature

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