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Sammy Davis, Jr.

"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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"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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"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

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"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

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"To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation."

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"I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media."

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"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."

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"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people."

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"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."

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"Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people."

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"My home has always been show business."
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"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."
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"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."
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"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."
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