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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
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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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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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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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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 have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
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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 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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
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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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Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
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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 defend myself by improving myself.
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