"I had learned something of Miami from people……" — Sidney Poitier
"I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect."
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88 Quotes by Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier has 88 quotes on this site.
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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…
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted…
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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…
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I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and…
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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…
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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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More Expect Quotes
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
— Hannah Arendt
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
— Isaac Asimov
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
— Julian Assange
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
— Chinua Achebe
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
— Richard Bach
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When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to…
— Michele Bachmann
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
— Abu Bakr
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
— Drew Barrymore
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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