Morgan Freeman Quotes
I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
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All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.
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If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'
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For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it.
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I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.
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I work in politics and media, two industries that have been particularly affected by the issue of misconduct. We have seen famous and powerful men finally pay a price for behavior they got away with for decades. Many have lost their positions and status - rightly so.
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When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.
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We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.
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If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
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There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.
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We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.
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I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
