"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

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Sidney Poitier

#Shots Quotes #Ability Quotes

“Boy trouble, huh?" "Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this." "Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's voice. "Do Lucas," Kylie said. Holiday made a funny face and raised one eyebrow.”
“I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.”
“I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.”
“No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It is dedicated to peace, civilization and the triumphs of industry. It is a demonstration of fraternity and the harbinger of a better age-a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be best honored and well rewarded.”
“You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.”
“The reason I love you is not because you are special like nobody I've ever met before. It is because nobody has made me feel more special than anybody ever did before you.”
“I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.”
“You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don't like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, 'As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don't I begin to hate you.”

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