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I come from a great family. Ive seen family life and I know how wo

I come from a great family. Ive seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. – 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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legal
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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, its a positive one. – Sidney Poitier

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positive
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Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. – Gracie Allen

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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. – John Cheever

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My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, Im still always moving. – Gus Van Sant

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Ive always put my family first and thats just the way it is. – Jamie Lee Curtis

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