"I wanted to look at them because I……" — Sidney Poitier
"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."
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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 Extraordinary Quotes
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you…
— David Attenborough
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because…
— David Bailey
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
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A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's…
— Andrea Bocelli
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
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