"Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself."

-- Tom Jones

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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 get insulted.”

Source : In Sammy Davis Jnr., J., and B. Boyar 'Yes I Can' (1965) pt. 3, ch. 23
“You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.”
“If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.”

Source : Remarks during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on October 1927. "Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations". Book by Werner Heisenberg, pp. 85-86, 1971.
“It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.”
“From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.”
“I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.”
“My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.”
“O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.”

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