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Inspirational Quotes by Sidney Poitier
- If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
- Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
- History passes the final judgment
- The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
- I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
- The older we get the less afraid we are.
- I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
- Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.
- I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
- I cannot be understood in three minutes.
- I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
- Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.
- I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.
- So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
- So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
- But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
- My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
- I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
- I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
- I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
- I had two roles for which I compromised.
- I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.
- I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
- I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
- Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
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