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Sidney Poitier Quotes

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Nature Mother God Best Me Gift

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

Dog New York Parents People City Me

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Life Family Home Children Die Help

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

John Polkinghorne

Work Best Do Your Best Thought You

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Stephen Hawking

Good Intelligence Design Improve

Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Tough Think Trying You Los Angeles

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

People Language You Know Talk Well

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

Leaf End Goal Play Piano Maple

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Louis D. Brandeis

Men Long Heaven Nothing Delight

The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.

Create Way Us Film Been Made

I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

Life Me Doing No Regrets Anything

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

Think You Conversation Down Lust

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Good Great Song Hands You Sometimes

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