Morgan Freeman Quotes

These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Morgan Freeman

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• This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Fun
  • Game

• Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Information
  • Discovery

• I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Life
  • World
  • Friends

• In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Country
  • Rock
  • Falling

• O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Wind

• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Conflict
  • Him

• I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Real
  • You
  • Day

• In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Crime

• There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Tradition

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Years
  • Company

• Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Air
  • Beauty

• I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Dreams
  • Convince
  • Offer

• After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz
  • World
  • Work
  • Money

• If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • World
  • Son

• For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances.

  

  George Kotsiopoulos
  • Red

• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • History
  • Nature

• Our teams always play hard.

  

  Jeff Fisher

• These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

  

  Morgan Freeman
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