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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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 have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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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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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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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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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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
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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 had two roles for which I compromised.
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As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
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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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I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
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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 apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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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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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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