Sidney Poitier Quotes - Page 3

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• My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Stories, Story Of My Life, Autobiography

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• I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

  Sidney Poitier

  Liars, Use, Shapes

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• But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

  Sidney Poitier

  Shots, Ability, My Own

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• 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

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• I cannot be understood in three minutes.

  Sidney Poitier

  Three, Minutes, Understood

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• I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

  Sidney Poitier

  Country, Jobs, People

  "The leading man". Interview with Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2000.

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• I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

  Sidney Poitier

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

  Sidney Poitier

  Years, Catholic, Dying

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". O Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com.

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• As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Father, Son

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• We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.

  Sidney Poitier

  Pain, Expectations, Suffering

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• Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

  Sidney Poitier

  Behavior, Despise, Humans

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• If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

  Sidney Poitier

  Oneness, Anxious, After Death

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

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• The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

  Sidney Poitier

  Impact, Black, Hollywood

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• I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

  Sidney Poitier

  Vision, Film

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• I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

  Sidney Poitier

  Years, Understanding, Granddaughter

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• I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Mother, Religious, Believe

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

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• I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

  Sidney Poitier

  Nature, Attitude, Order

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

  Sidney Poitier

  Nature, Numbers, Compromise

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• My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

  Sidney Poitier

  Dad, Father, Men

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• We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

  Sidney Poitier

  Love, Perfection, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

  Sidney Poitier

  People, Black, Theater

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• I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

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  Running, Florida, Racism

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• Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

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  Weapons, Wanted

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• I'm going to quit writing.

  Sidney Poitier

  Writing, Quitting

  "Sidney Poitier's book addresses great-granddaughter". www.today.com. June 9, 2008.

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• 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

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