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Sammy Davis, Jr.

"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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

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Asa Don Brown

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

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Asa Don Brown

"Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame."

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Asa Don Brown

"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."

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Asa Don Brown

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

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Asa Don Brown

"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."

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Asa Don Brown

"Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name."

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Asa Don Brown

"I am your number one fan."

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Asa Don Brown

"Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat."

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Asa Don Brown

"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

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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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"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."
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"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
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"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."
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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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Sammy Davis, Jr.
"The ultimate mystery is one's own self."
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"I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding."
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"If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man."
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"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
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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."
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