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Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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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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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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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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
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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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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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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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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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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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 a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
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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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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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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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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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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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