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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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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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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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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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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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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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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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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 was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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