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Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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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 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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Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
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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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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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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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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 wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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