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 turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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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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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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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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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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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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But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.
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I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.
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History passes the final judgment.
