Sidney Poitier Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1924

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I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

Robert Kirkman

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'Happy Feet' has many felicities.

Robert Gottlieb

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I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

Robert B. Parker

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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.

Joseph Bologna

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If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Douglas Coupland

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In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

Douglass North

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My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

Christopher Buckley

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People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

Colin Quinn

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I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

Bruce Robinson

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Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in the press of the civil rights movement is truncated with the briefest of histories of men like Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, or John Lewis.

Anthea Butler

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There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Alice Cary

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