Sidney Poitier Quotes
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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however…
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes…
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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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History passes the final judgment
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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.…
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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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The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
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I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
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Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
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The older we get the less afraid we are.
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I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
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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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Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.
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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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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 wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
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