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“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”

Sidney Poitier · Morning

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Sidney Poitier

My father was very big on marriage.

Marriage

Sidney Poitier

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.

Legal

Sidney Poitier

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.

Positive

Sidney Poitier

History passes the final judgment.

History