Morgan Freeman Quotes
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.
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To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress -- who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood -- and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium. It has broadened my horizons in my own mind and ultimately it is about the character for me. If I read something and I fall in love with the character, no matter what it is, I'm eager to do it. That is what happened with Gwen [on "Angel"].
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With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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A million years went by quick.
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From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
