Sidney Poitier Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

  Sidney Poitier

  Thinking, Talking, Trying

• I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

  Sidney Poitier

  Reflection, Use, Chosen

• As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

  Sidney Poitier

  Men, Parent, Dear God

• But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

  Sidney Poitier

  Views, Land, Other Worlds

• Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Nature, Numbers, Compromise

• I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Wanted, Values

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