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Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
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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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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 am the me I choose to be.
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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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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 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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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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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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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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