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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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I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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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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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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I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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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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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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So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
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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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I am the me I choose to be.
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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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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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I cannot be understood in three minutes.
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