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Famous Sidney Poitier Quotes
“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.”
“I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.”
“I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.”
“I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.”
“I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.”
“There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.”
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
“Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.”
“I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.”
“Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.”
“You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.”
“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
“Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.”
“If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.”
“I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.”
“I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.”