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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All men hate the nagging.
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Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
