Morgan Freeman Quotes
The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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I will run against anybody.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.
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In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
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The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.
