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.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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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.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
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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.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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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.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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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.
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Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!
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I really hate to write.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.
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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
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Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.
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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.
