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I always wanted to be someone...

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

To simply wake up every morni...

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

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

I was born two months early, ...

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

I had two roles for which I c...

I had two roles for which I compromised.

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

A good deed here, a good deed...

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

I have always been a learner ...

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

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My father was a certain kind ...

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

I lived in a country where I ...

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

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I knew what it was to be unco...

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

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I did not go into the film bu...

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

When I set out to become an a...

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

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History passes the final judg...

History passes the final judgment.

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I come from a great family. I...

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

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Generally, I tend to despise ...

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

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As a man, I've been represent...

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.

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My father was a poor man, ver...

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

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My mother was the most amazin...

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

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If you apply reason and logic...

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

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I know how easy it is for one...

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

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I learned to hear silence. Th...

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

Sidney Poitier 111 quotes

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