Morgan Freeman Quotes

I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.

Morgan Freeman

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• I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Day
  • Got
  • Twitter

• Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Fall
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Politicians
  • Journalists

• It did not go without notice that Ayn Rand stood beside me as I took the oath of office in the presence of President Ford in the Oval Office. Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I'm grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Life
  • She

• I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Science
  • Funny

• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Stocks
  • Plateau

• It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about being of service as an integral part of the consciousness of the world. In honor of him and because it’s right, I use music in that light.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Light

• As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Excellence

• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes

• What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Sympathy
  • Tongue

• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • World
  • Change
  • Relative

• The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Home
  • Themselves
  • Reactionaries

• For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Violence
  • Reasons
  • Pragmatic

• Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Culture
  • Thanks
  • Believer

• I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Music
  • Art
  • I Love

• I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Believer
  • Firm
  • Things Happen