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

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I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it wi... by Sidney Poitier

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

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Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

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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.

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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do aston... by Sidney Poitier

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

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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.

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I cannot be understood in three minutes. by Sidney Poitier

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the... by Sidney Poitier

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

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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.

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The older we get the less afraid we are. by Sidney Poitier

The older we get the less afraid we are.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human cre... by Sidney Poitier

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

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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the inse... by Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not... by Sidney Poitier

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

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But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my ow... by Sidney Poitier

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

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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

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I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

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