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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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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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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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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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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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.
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How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
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One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.
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On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'
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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
