Sidney Poitier Quotes
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.Sidney Poitier
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich -
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran -
Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
Federica Mogherini -
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.
Ian Frazier -
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
Samantha Mathis -
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.
H. P. Lovecraft
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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.
Haile Selassie -
That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
Iman -
I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
Hamid Karzai -
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.
Yoko Ono -
Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
Salman Khurshid
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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.
Ralph Gibson -
Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller -
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
J. Irwin Miller -
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Harold Bloom -
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Irving Langmuir
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius -
I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me.
George C. Wolfe -
I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees -
La molesse est doce, et sa suite est cruelle.
John Quincy Adams -
I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.
Ciara -
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Sidney Poitier