"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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"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."
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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."
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"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."
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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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"My father was very big on marriage."
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