Morgan Freeman Quotes
When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.Morgan Freeman
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I have learned to be patient.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
M. Night Shyamalan -
My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
I believe women are the glue of everything.
Weili Dai -
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
Kate Braverman
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Hans Kung -
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
Iain Duncan Smith -
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
Felix Dennis -
The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
Walter Cronkite -
The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
Sam Hunt -
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
Garet Garrett -
Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
Carlisle Floyd -
Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
R. Kelly -
A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.
Nancy Kress -
A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
Edmund Phelps
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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
Elisabeth Elliot -
I'm easily entertained.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
Sally Ride -
My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
Vanilla Ice -
I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
Jack Lowden -
When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.
Morgan Freeman