Morgan Freeman Quotes

Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

Morgan Freeman

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • You
  • Better
  • Once

• Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Family
  • House
  • Parents

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Today

• The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • May
  • Way

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Love
  • Why
  • You

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Inspiration

• I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Everyone

• The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Jesus
  • Thoughts

• It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Important

• 'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury

• There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Animal

• Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Words

• The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Lasts

• I loved the role [of John Wick]. I loved the action. I loved all the new characters. The world expands into the Underworld. It's getting bigger. Yeah, it was a really great experience [in John Wick 2].

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Great
  • Experience

• So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Words
  • Eyes
  • Conceive

• The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Money
  • Book
  • Together

• Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement-the art of living.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Art

• Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Eyes
  • Blind