Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

John C. McGinley

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Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.

Jennifer Pahlka

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Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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The exciting thing about the current emergence of bitcoin 2.0 applications is that you don't have to know anything about bitcoin or how the blockchain works to get a lot of utility and value out of the technology.

Meltem Demirors

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I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Tracy Morgan

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I love singing just for my own benefit.

Miranda Kerr

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Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy.

Jon Gruden

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There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

Dick Durbin

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At 500, our policy is 12 weeks of fully paid leave for all parents in the U.S. Parents can choose to take this leave consecutively or spread it out through the first 12 months after birth.

Christine Tsai

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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

William Gibson

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Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

Peter Sellers

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I've always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They're all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone like me could do that.

Pearl Mackie

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