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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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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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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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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Every educated person is a future enemy.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
