Sidney Poitier Quotes
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I don't read books.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!
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I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
