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"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
Explore more quotes by Sammy Davis, Jr.
"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."
"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."
"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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