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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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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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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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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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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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.
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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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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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An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
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