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

• 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

• I can remember seeing the movie for the first time at a revival house in L.A. and laughing with everyone else, and never imagining that I would be doing Max one day, even though by then I had already memorized the entire movie.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!

  

  Vanity

• I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Friend
  • Devil

• Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

  

  Phil Gramm
  • America

• If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.

  

  Bruno Maag
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mirror

• No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

  

  Daryl Gates
  • Done
  • King
  • Police

• Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie withing every human being, looked outward-pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut

• 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
  • Funny
  • Hate
  • Walls