Morgan Freeman Quotes

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Want
  • Safety
  • Framed

• The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Passion

• I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Education

• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fashion

• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Trust

• Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Choose
  • Content

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • World
  • Real
  • College

• In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Forever
  • Fact
  • Sport

• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • People
  • Honor
  • Will

• One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• Every day is a blessing.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Blessing

• I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Player
  • TV
  • Sworn

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Desire
  • Inspiration
  • Lying

• Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr

• Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Jealousy

• There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Mystery
  • Costume