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"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
"Novelist by day, screenwriter by night."
"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
"Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life."
"Having a job is being busy."
"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."
"If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career."
Explore more quotes by Sidney Poitier
"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."
"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."
"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."
"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."
"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."
"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."
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