"My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking,"

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Source : "Sammy Davis Jr". The Oral Cancer Foundation, February 6, 2008.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you can't stop thinking about your job, in a positive way that energizes you, then you're probably where you're meant to be.”
“The only way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money-making.”
“Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.”
“These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.”
“Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.”
“However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.”
“I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. [...] He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.”

Source : "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner, translated by Benjamin Tucker, New York edition, p. 187, 1907.
“We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women”

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