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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• 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.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Player
  • Never
  • Shoe

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Capacity

• A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Through

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Broken
  • Honey
  • Glass

• 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.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• 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.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Up
  • Law
  • Service

• Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Exist
  • Pop

• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Find

• Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do.

  

  Travis Tatum Mills
  • Touring
  • My Favorite
  • Favorites Things

• If you get thrown off by the fact that I have bleach-blonde hair and tattoos, and listen to rock and roll, gettin' Sammy Hagar, and that's where your premise is going to come from, then you really don't know me well enough to tell me to do anything or really have a position that you should be making an opinion about me.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Rock
  • Opinion
  • Hair

• I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Life
  • Appreciation

• I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

  

  Sidney Poitier
  • Life
  • Father
  • Reflect