Morgan Freeman Quotes
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the viewing figures, so do an enormous number of people in this country.
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I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
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I've laughed hysterically, just trying to hold it in, at every funeral I've been to, because everyone's so serious. And there are a lot of people speaking publicly, which makes you understand why it's people's number one fear - because everyone shouldn't do it.
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Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.
