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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
- Sidney Poitier
#Black
#Me
#Million
#People
#Person
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
- Sidney Poitier
#Autobiography
#Life
#My Life
#Story
My father was very big on marriage.
- Sidney Poitier
#Big
#Father
#Marriage
#Very
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
- Sidney Poitier
#Career
#Good
#Here
#Up
#Way
But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
- Sidney Poitier
#Ability
#Always
#My Own
#Own
#Say
I'm not a library.
- Sidney Poitier
#Library
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- Sidney Poitier
#Dad
#Good Person
#Good
#Integrity
#Man
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
- Sidney Poitier
#Loved One
#Loved
#Perfection
#Suffer
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
- Sidney Poitier
#Always
#Better
#Day
#Next
#Someone
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
- Sidney Poitier
#Chosen
#Reflection
#Use
#Values
#Work
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
- Sidney Poitier
#Father
#Man
#Poor Man
#Poor
#Things
History passes the final judgment.
- Sidney Poitier
#Final
#History
#Judgment
#Passes
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
- Sidney Poitier
#Behavior
#Despise
#Human Behavior
#Human
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
- Sidney Poitier
#Because
#Change
#Every
#Moment
#Single
#Thing
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
- Sidney Poitier
#Good
#Journey
#Long Road
#Long
#Road
The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
- Sidney Poitier
#Been
#Beginning
#Incredible
#Journey
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
- Sidney Poitier
#Life
#Me
#Pure
#Randomness
#Seems
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
#Easy
#Know
#Legal
#Truth
#Words
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
- Sidney Poitier
#Bed
#Better
#Morning
#Person
#Wake Up
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
- Sidney Poitier
#Did
#Father's Day
#Father
#Life
#My Life
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