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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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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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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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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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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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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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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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 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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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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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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