Sidney Poitier Quotes
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
Sidney Poitier
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
Natasha Lyonne
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
Iman
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
Fabrizio Moreira
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
Sam Harris
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
Abbe Pierre
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
Uzo Aduba
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
Randy Moss
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
M. C. Gainey
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I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.
Larry Ellison
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
Patricia MacLachlan
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Faith Baldwin
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde
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I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
Sidney Poitier
