Sidney Poitier Quotes
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
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I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.
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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
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I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!
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In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
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The openness of Athens created by the democracy, he had seen, threatened to destabilize the democracy itself.
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In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
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My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
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It's a great feeling when your work is appreciated.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.
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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
