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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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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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An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
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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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