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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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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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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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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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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
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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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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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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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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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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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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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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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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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 autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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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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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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