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Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Miami
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Sir Sidney Poitier
Three
Cannot
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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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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 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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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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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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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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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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I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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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 have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
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I am the me I choose to be.
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