Source: Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
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Famous Sidney Poitier Quotes
“Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.”
“You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.”
“I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.”
“When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.”
“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.”
“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”
“So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.”
“So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.”
“I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.”
“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
“Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.”
“I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.”
“But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.”
“But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.”