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"26 Sidney Poitier Quotes & Sayings

      Bahamian     /     View profile
Born: 20 February 1927 | Actor | Film director | Ambassador |

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

Learned Positve Anger Destroy me
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So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness

Much Life Determined Randomness
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Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

Forgiveness People Behavior Process
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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
Person Change Become Better
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We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Courageous Cowardly Life Imperfections
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment

Accept Environment Compromises Values
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As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

Father Legacy Measure Man
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Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

Acting Game Pretend Real
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I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

Think Way Want Live
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Wake up Better Person Bed
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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 difficult that may be.

Image Elements Reality Let go
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There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Racial Ethnic Domination Hopelessness
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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

Chosen Use Work Values
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But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

Always Ability No Own shots
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

Every Fashion Form Rebellion
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Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

Living Genuine Honestly Moment
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Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Racism Painful Life Ends
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

Apologize Afraid Child Man
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I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
Set Star High Motion
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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Marriage Life Weak Insecure
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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.

Great Family Know Wonderful
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As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Man Values Lives Parents
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I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

Chasing You Glory
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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...

Respect Worshipful Attitude Natural order
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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

Know Responsible Happens Make
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I wouldn’t change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Change Single Alters Moment
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Sidney Poitier Quotes & Sayings