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I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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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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