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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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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.
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The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become.
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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.
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'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
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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.
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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.
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The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.
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I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
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As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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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.
