Sidney Poitier Quotes
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
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I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years, I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children - they simply forget how much it hurts.
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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
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Looking back now toward the startYou said you thought I'd lost my pathAnd I asked if you still considered love an artAnd you said "No, I think it's more a craft"And I just turned and laughedI just had to turn and laugh.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
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History passes the final judgment.
