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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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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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.
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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.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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I got an email from Nick [Kroll] that he and John [Mulaney] were looking to put on the stage show with two of their characters from Kroll Show and could I help at all. And they were doing it [off-Broadway] at the Cherry Lane and they had been performing it at UCB, just sort of testing it out. I worked on it for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience.
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.