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All Quotes by author - Sidney Poitier

" 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. "

" An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. "

" 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. "

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

" But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. "

" 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. "

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

" History passes the final judgment. "

" I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before. "

" 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. "

" I cannot be understood in three minutes. "

" I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. "

" I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. "

" I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me. "

" I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't very often read novels. "

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

" If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. "

" If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. "

" If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. "

" I get offered work these days. "

" I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. "

" I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. "

" I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. "

" I had two roles for which I compromised. "

" I have always been a learner because I knew nothing. "

" 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. "

" 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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