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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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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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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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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 had two roles for which I compromised.
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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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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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 it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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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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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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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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