Sidney Poitier Quotes

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

Sidney Poitier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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WWE is the epitome of Sports Entertainment; it gets no bigger than this. So, whether you are on 'Raw' or on 'SmackDown,' the level of talent that we have on both sides is second to none.

Jinder Mahal

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Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you're called to do, it's more of a distraction.

Joel Osteen

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Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

John Cleveland

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It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.

Robert Kraft

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Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

Steve Hanke

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I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Stacy Schiff

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I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.

Solomon Burke

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There is a big market for horror in India, but people don't explore that much.

Sidharth Malhotra

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I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

Tom Rachman

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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

Josephine Baker

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It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day.

Jonathan Dee

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I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.

Jonathan Ive

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