Sidney Poitier Quotes
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I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.
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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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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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My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
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My father was very big on marriage.
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An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
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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 always been a learner because I knew nothing.
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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 that you aren't to become better than you are.
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History passes the final judgment
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
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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 cannot be understood in three minutes.
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I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
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My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.
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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 come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
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I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
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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 do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
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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 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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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
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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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