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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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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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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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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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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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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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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 had two roles for which I compromised.
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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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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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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 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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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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I defend myself by improving myself.
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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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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 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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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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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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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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