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I had two roles for which I compromised.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
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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 was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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