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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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Sir Sidney Poitier
Compromised
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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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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
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I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.
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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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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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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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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
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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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