"My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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“We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.”
“I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.”
“It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.”
“I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.”
“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.”

Source : Paul Goodman (1977). “Nature Heals”
“To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.”
“The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.”
“I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.”

Source : "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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