Morgan Freeman Quotes
I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's...none of us can. I hate saying no to people.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them.
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In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could solve the energy crisis and global warming. I probably would have done it, too, if I'd stuck to it.
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I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.
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I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's...none of us can. I hate saying no to people.
