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Sidney Poitier Quotes

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited. It's in everything. There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. The journey has been incredible from its beginning. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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