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Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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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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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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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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 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 never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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