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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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Living consciously involves being genuine it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly it involves being in the moment.
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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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I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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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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So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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