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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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So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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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 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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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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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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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 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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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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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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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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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