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

• 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

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

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• 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

• I felt the need, in order to widen my field of observation and to refresh my vision in front of new sights, to take myself away for a while from the area where I was living, and to make some trips lasting several weeks in Normandy, Brittany and elsewhere..

  

  Claude Monet
  • Vision

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them. And more government isn't going to inspire new ideas, new businesses and new private sector jobs. It's going to create uncertainty.

  

  Marco Rubio
  • Help

• Disrespect, the feeling that what one has to offer in life has been rejected, the feeling that one has joined history's losers can make us as human beings more vulnerable to evil.

  

  Al Gore
  • Life
  • History
  • Feeling

• One of the fundamental scientific discoveries of the dog-human relationship is that when a dog looks into his master's eyes, you have a release of oxytocin - which is the trust hormone, the love hormone.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Relationship
  • Eyes
  • Trust

• It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • School
  • Character
  • Evil

• Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Age

• I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my life as a gift, and there is a lot of beauty in other religions. I'm kind of a spiritual mutt.

  

  Emily Saliers
  • Life
  • Church
  • Spiritual

• 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