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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius
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The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.
Lavrenti Lopes -
I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.
Barry Ptolemy -
I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
Harlan Coben -
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
Alex Gibney -
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Sidney Poitier