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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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Explore more quotes by Sidney Poitier
"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."
Life
"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."
Father
"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."
Work
"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."
Family
"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
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."
Perfection
"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."
Life
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."
Bed
"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
Life
"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."
Compliment
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