"In America, it is difficult to be your…" — Sidney Poitier
"In America, it is difficult to be your own man."
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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 America Quotes
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
— Desi Arnaz
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
— Bashar al-Assad
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
— Chinua Achebe
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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