Morgan Freeman Quotes
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
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I choose to express myself.
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Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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What force is more potent than love?
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.
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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work.
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Working on stage is really a great voice developer.
