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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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