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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
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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 wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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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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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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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 that you aren't to become better than you are.
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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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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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I had two roles for which I compromised.
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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
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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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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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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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I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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