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You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.
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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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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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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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You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
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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 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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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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I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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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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I had two roles for which I compromised.
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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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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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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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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 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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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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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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