"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."
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
-Marvin Gaye
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"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
-Lucy Hale
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"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
-John Clayton
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"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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