Sidney Poitier Quotes

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I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

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If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.

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We're all of us a little greedy. We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier

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Born: February 20, 1927

Died: January 6, 2022 (aged 94)

Bio: Sir Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat.

Known for:

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
The Defiant Ones (1958)

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