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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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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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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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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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 cannot be understood in three minutes.
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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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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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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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 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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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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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