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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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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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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'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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 have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
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