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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 have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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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'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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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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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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