Morgan Freeman Quotes

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

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• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
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• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
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• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  

  Yancy Butler
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• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.

  

  Adam Beach
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• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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• Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'

  

  Gary Calamar
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• When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

  

  Barry Schwartz
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• I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  

  Dan Gable
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• Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.

  

  Imogen Heap
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• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
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• I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

  

  Jessica Pare
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• Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
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• I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

  

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