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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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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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
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Nobody is born evil.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
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If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.
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History passes the final judgment.
