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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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 had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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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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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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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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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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 have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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