Morgan Freeman Quotes

There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

Morgan Freeman

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• Homophobia

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• Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

  

  Karen O
  • Pretty
  • Rock
  • Road

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Know

• The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Know
  • Brain
  • Army

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Always
  • Process

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Veteran
  • Veterans

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Singing
  • Guitar
  • Kitchen

• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Style

• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Ambition

• If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Try
  • Something
  • Average

• I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • Pool

• Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the dead. A moment, and then it was over: The diamond blazed up in my eyes, And I saw in the face of my lover A questioning, strange surprise. Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers, That heavy with fragrance bloomed near, But I didn't feel natural for hours; It was odd now, wasn't it, dear? Write soon to your fortunate Clara Who has carried the prize away, And say you'll come on when I marry; I think it will happen in May.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dream
  • Care
  • Imagine

• There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Fear
  • Thing
  • Asshole