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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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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I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.
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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 never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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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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If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.
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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
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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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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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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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I had two roles for which I compromised.
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