Sidney Poitier Quotes
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe.
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.
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In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.
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I don't think I've gotten any faster. I think just my stride has gotten more powerful. Just going wide, being able to drive to the net and get by the D, using the strength in my legs to get there. Kind of like the type of skater that Erik Cole is. He's got great speed, but he's got such a powerful stride, it makes him tough to stop.
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
