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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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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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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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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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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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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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Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
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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 do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
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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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