Sidney Poitier Quotes
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
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The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."
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Clearly people should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness! But I think that for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy. We're doing a job that is not a celebrity job or an entertainment or fashion job.... In a professional setting, treat us as professionals.... And it takes a lot of time. I've often laughed with my male colleagues, like, "What did you do? You took a shower, you combed your hair, you put your clothes on. I couldn't do that."
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It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.
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There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
