"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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"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.“
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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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"A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments."
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