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Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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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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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 have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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I am the me I choose to be.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
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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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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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I had two roles for which I compromised.
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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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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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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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