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I am the me I choose to be.

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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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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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
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I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
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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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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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