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Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1925 - May 16, 1990

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Debt Become Star Million Ten After

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Men Information Know Ask Little Own

Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.

Action Feel News Lens Page Become

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

John von Neumann

Science Random Numbers Sin Living

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.

Mother Death Game Frustration Golf

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Puzzle Irony Structure Something

It's been interesting. I went through a period where a lot of people would recognize me, and then when I had injures and my ranking dropped, not as many people did.

People Me Interesting Through Where

People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

Music People Want See Out Going

I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.

Life Day I Am Internet Friends

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Good Blessed Voice Enough Back Just

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

David Wilkerson

Believe Walking Spirit I Believe

My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.

Amazing Story Short She Single Well

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

People White Wonder Wrong Starting

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