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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.
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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.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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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.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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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.
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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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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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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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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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