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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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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 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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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 am the me I choose to be.
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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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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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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 never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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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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