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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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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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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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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 cannot be understood in three minutes.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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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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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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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
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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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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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