"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
-Sidney Poitier
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"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.“
-Sidney Poitier
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