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Sidney Poitier Inspirational Quotes (49)

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I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
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Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
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As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
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If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
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So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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I had two roles for which I compromised.
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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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