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"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, American Actor

Positive, Obligation, Reflection, Responsibility

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"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."

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Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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Mark Twain, American Author

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."

Garrett M. Graff, American Journalist

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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with."

Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician

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Explore more quotes by Sidney Poitier

"I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people."

"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."

"I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life."

"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."

"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."

"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."

"So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness."

"I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect."

"My autobiography was simply the story of my life."

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