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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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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You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the same time. Half the people will love it; half the people will hate it. Half the people won't see it.
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No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.
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I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.
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I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.
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History passes the final judgment.
