Morgan Freeman Quotes

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

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• Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Political
  • Worry
  • Tools

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Job
  • Day
  • End

• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Will

• Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Poverty
  • Retirement

• For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Style

• I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• 'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • People
  • Think
  • Society

• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Up
  • Death
  • Die

• I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • True
  • Saved

• I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

  

  J. D. Salinger

• Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκαθέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.

  

  Aeschylus

• The middle aged madonnacalls her neighbor on the phone.Day by day, the seasons passand leave her life alone.But she'll go walking out that dooron some bright afternoonto go and paint big citiesfrom a lonely attic room. - Middletown Dreams (1985)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • She
  • Alone

• I want to wake up with the rain Falling on a tin roof While I'm safe there in your arms So all I ask is for you To come away with me in the night Come away with me

  

  Norah Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Rain

• Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Bono U2
  • Interesting
  • Rock
  • Aesthetic

• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Road

• My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Book
  • Couple
  • Financial

• I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Blessed

• Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Done
  • German

• Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Taken

• If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.

  

  Kirsten Green
  • People
  • Game
  • Space

• I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Black History Month